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At 9.11 am on 17 August 2025 the pictured individual was very close to us.

She was just on the other side of the living room window.

All of us were enjoying the morning sun, after a very rainy night in and around Pemberton.

The particular location is one where we really like to stay…and which fairywrens (and many other petite birds) also like.

(the relevant cottages are less than a five minute drive from Pemberton. They share their name with the adjacent forest, and are blessed with generous, nature-loving owners)

The hero/ine of #11 in this series – photographed the previous afternoon, less than 100 metres away – was definitely a white-browned scrubwren,

This post’s heroine is definitely a female fairywren, but her beak makes me unsure of her species.

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The featured image (above) was taken at 2.51 pm on 18 August 2025, near Beedelup Falls, in southwestern Western Australia’s “Karri country”.

Although not a very fine photo, it does show some very unusual behaviour.

”Flaunting it” is something to which any male member of the genus Malurus – the eleven Australian species generally known as “fairywrens” – devotes a deal of his life.

Generally, however, these “show-offs” are very wary; as soon as a flaunting fairywren senses a human’s presence, he “disappears”.

Q: So why was the pictured individual right out in the open, on a sealed roadway’s surface, and utterly unalarmed by my very obvious, very close presence?

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