I have moved stuff,not right at his bower but from my original drop to a rock he likes to land on..he takes them then.
I cut one small bit of foliage from the area in front of his bower so as to expose it to the camera a little more,just one piece every few days.
Simple re the painting ! I will capture him doing it..it may take me a million pics and countless hours but I will get him doing it definitively (yeah right!)
He loves the yellow leaves as pictured also.
About 15 years ago on a deer hunt a mate brought back to camp a blue peg that he had found about 3 K`s away high up on a ridge. The nearest clothesline was perhaps five K`s away so there had been a fair amount of territorial stealing for that to get where found.
I am going to cut up some suitable yellow plastic to test him out. I believe from my own evidence that he only uses one particular shape from one yellow plant often stacking 3-4 in his beak. He flies off and brings them from elsewhere (?)
If he doesn't take yellow strips I will cut shapes acc with the yellow leaves for a simple test.
I want to catch him doing his dancing with feather fanning,it looks awesome with his iridescent bronze points of plumage in the light..flashes like a fishing lure in the sun.
We have Lyrebirds too,alas not in the home garden.
Another bird we have is this KP hen with the crook beak. I finally caught her yesterday and cut off her beak to a point roughly level with her lower beak underside. Yes its still too long but I will recapture her to trip off to the vet who will shape and trim to the correct point.
The poor ******* is in moult and hasn't been able to preen as nature dictates so this will help her till the next big day out.
One of her tribe of the many that come in for a freebie.