ashy tailorbird mirrored @ woodlands waterfront - Aug2012

Thud! thud! ...i turned to look at what was thudding but all i saw was a tiny bird sitting atop a rusty barbed wire near a convex mirror. It flew off... and I thought that was it. A few more steps along the waterfront ...thud! thud!. I turned back to find not one but two ashy tailorbirds and a little yellow friend, perhaps a sunbird or an iora?. One ashy tailorbird started assaulting its image in the mirror with some gusto whilst the other and their yellow lil' friend went about preening themselves on the rusty barbed wire. 

I suppose the convex mirror aggravated the tailorbird with the competitor appearing to fly up to meet the protagonist defender each time with the 'thud' adding to the reality of the perceived threat so as to enrage an already excited tailor. Ironical, a self-'tailor'ed conundrum.
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Read more about the ashy tailorbirds :

http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Orthotomus_ruficeps.htm
http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/birds/tailorbirds.htm
http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/2119.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashy_Tailorbird
http://www.besgroup.org/2008/08/17/family-of-tailorbirds/
http://www.besgroup.org/2011/03/31/call-of-the-ashy-tailorbird/
http://www.besgroup.org/2011/07/19/ashy-tailorbirds-%E2%80%93-duet-sparring-and-sonograms/
http://www.besgroup.org/2007/09/16/a-family-of-common-tailorbirds/
http://www.besgroup.org/2007/05/25/common-tailorbird-a-failed-nesting/