Superb Fairy Wrens--Nocturnal

Some months ago, now, I was sitting up late--after midnight--one night, in the dark, and looking outside the window. By the outside light, in the branches of a pear-tree, were some Superb Fairy Wrens.

Instead of being asleep, like normal little wrens, they were on "night duty''--busily darting about and catching insects attracted to the glow of the lamp.

It's interesting that they adapted to the high tech electric lifestyle, making use of it for nocturnal hunting expeditions. Surely, without electric light, they'd've been fast asleep?

Willie Wagtail, though, is always busy and active, on brightest moonlit nights, singin' "sweet pretty creature!''; but I wouldn't know if he's hunting for insects or not.

I know sparrows are able to make use of high tech, too, and gather fibreglass fibres from my garage skylight to use as nesting material.