Good idea or not?
Good idea, but what's a birtds? :slap: :lol:
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 05, 2013, 02:33:19 AM
Good idea, but what's a birtds? :slap: :lol:
Oh f**k. I hope I can change that.
You did :cheers:
so where are the birds ?
Tomorrow cobber. Everything needs to be resized.
:2thumbs:
I'm enjoying a drink now so resizing is not an option. :cheers:
I hope the birds don't mind being "resized". :eek2: :D
great idea. you have some awesome birds down there. :2thumbs:
We already have a "chicks with Chargers" section.........or is this proposed venture and different kind of bird? :D
:shruggy:
:popcrn:
Quote from: twodko on October 05, 2013, 10:49:36 AM
We already have a "chicks with Chargers" section.........or is this proposed venture and different kind of bird? :D
Maybe, the pancake kind, the kind you flip :lol:
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 05, 2013, 02:44:15 PM
:shruggy:
:popcrn:
come on Fred :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :P :2thumbs: wheres the chick at :popcrn: :popcrn: :popcrn: :popcrn:
This chick's sitting directly in front of me.......
Sulphur crested cockatoos
Wow-- are they members of your family or guests?
:popcrn:
keep them coming, thanks.
Quote from: ws23rt on October 05, 2013, 06:02:32 PM
Wow-- are they members of your family or guests?
Members if they want to be. Guests if they don't. These are wild birds that know we're happy to share what is as much there's as it is ours.
All the birds I'll be posting are wild.
I see a bird bath, do you have feeders?
Lorekeets
Quote from: Fred on October 05, 2013, 06:07:41 PM
Quote from: ws23rt on October 05, 2013, 06:02:32 PM
Wow-- are they members of your family or guests?
Members if they want to be. Guests if they don't. These are wild birds that know we're happy to share what is as much there's as it is ours.
All the birds I'll be posting are wild.
All the better that they are wild and they come to visit :2thumbs:----Have you taught them to speak Fred yet? Polly want a charger :lol:
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 05, 2013, 06:10:04 PM
I see a bird bath, do you have feeders?
Not hanging out because they make such a mess picking out only their favourite sunflower seeds and discarding all the rest leaving seeds everywhere. (they become very selective when it's offered freely)
Also it's not necessary for most of the year as there's plenty of feed around and we don't want to encourage them to just hang around all day waiting for handouts.
Having said that though, we always pitch in when times are touch such as in drought and we do have a couple of regulars that have made our place our home and know how to beg real well and always get away with it.
Quote from: ws23rt on October 05, 2013, 06:12:55 PM
Quote from: Fred on October 05, 2013, 06:07:41 PM
Quote from: ws23rt on October 05, 2013, 06:02:32 PM
Wow-- are they members of your family or guests?
Members if they want to be. Guests if they don't. These are wild birds that know we're happy to share what is as much there's as it is ours.
All the birds I'll be posting are wild.
All the better that they are wild and they come to visit :2thumbs:----Have you taught them to speak Fred yet? Polly want a charger :lol:
Fred want charger......Polly will have to get his own! :lol:
Mr. and Mrs. King. King parrots
Quote from: Fred on October 05, 2013, 05:58:07 PM
This chick's sitting directly in front of me.......
Do'H not the birds , i was thinking of :brickwall: :lol:
some good pictures Fred , them lorekeets look like someone has painted them , amazing color combo :yesnod:
thanks for posting :cheers: :cheers:
You have a bird watcher's paradise.
Kings and Crimson Rosellas
The Kookaburra........Erika's favourite bird.
You have great neighbors and they obviously feel welcome. I wonder if they are people watchers and find you and Mrs Fred just as interesting :cheers:
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Quote from: tan top on October 05, 2013, 06:26:38 PM
Quote from: Fred on October 05, 2013, 05:58:07 PM
This chick's sitting directly in front of me.......
Do'H not the birds the was thinking of :brickwall: :lol:
some good pictures Fred , them lorekeets look like someone has painted them , amazing color combo :yesnod:
thanks for posting :cheers: :cheers:
I said birds not bimbos. :lol:
Aren't the Lorekeets something else. And you're welcome.
Taking a bath.....
you've got almost the same birds as here ,we've got Corella's as well .do the sulphur crests tear up the place ?
Quote from: polywideblock on October 05, 2013, 07:06:36 PM
you've got almost the same birds as here ,we've got Corella's as well .do the sulphur crests tear up the place ?
No because we don't feed them so they don't hang around. They fly in every day to have a drink and or bath and then fly off again. If we're sitting out they may come in close to see what's on offer and sometimes they sticky beak through the windows and doors but that's it.
We have Corella's too and Galahs but those birds prefer open fields so they're across the road and although we sight them all the time, they don't fly into our garden often enough to take pics.
We also have a pair of wedge tail eagles with two chicks that nest in a friends back yard (it's scrub and natural bush beyond his one acre of garden) who lives about ten houses down from us and it's fabulous to watch them hover in the backyard. But once again it's too hard to get pics of them.
This guy follows me all around the yard. He's a regular.
Have you taught him to make vroom vroom noises yet?
Butcher birds..... male with chick
So, how often do you have to power wash the patio? :lol:
Gang Gang (male)
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 05, 2013, 08:12:57 PM
So, how often do you have to power wash the patio? :lol:
Surprisingly not too often. Just a dish brush and hot water does the trick. The bird baths are another matter entirely. They get filthy and need cleaning out at least every other day.
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 05, 2013, 08:07:10 PM
Have you taught him to make vroom vroom noises yet?
No but they do actually try to communicate.......they're quite talkative.
So you are POTTY TRAINING the kookaburra's too? My Momma always told me not to potty where I eat...LOL Beautiful birds, you are so lucky.
Quote from: 70redbee on October 05, 2013, 08:27:02 PM
So you are POTTY TRAINING the kookaburra's too? My Momma always told me not to potty where I eat...LOL Beautiful birds, you are so lucky.
Thankyou.
I know, one minute they're taking a bath and the next they're having a drink. You'd think they could learn to do it the other way around. I know I don't drink my bath water.
..........just a thought.........they've never crapped in it though so I guess they have some standards.
absolutely awesome fred. thanks. :2thumbs:
Beautiful shots Fred. Quite the section of paradise you have there. Hope the cleanup don't drive you too nuts. :eek2:
Right on Fred, I was hoping to see some kooks, you didn't disappoint.
Quote from: bakerhillpins on October 06, 2013, 01:23:10 PM
Beautiful shots Fred. Quite the section of paradise you have there. Hope the cleanup don't drive you too nuts. :eek2:
I'm retired, gives me something to do. lol Can't drive the Charger every day. :icon_smile_big:
Butcher bird.......
Can't get any work done.......
For those that aren't familiar with it, that's a flowering gum.
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Female King
Great pictures-- Oh and I presume you don't have cats? Mine love to bird watch but they are not into hunting. (so far :-\)
Quote from: ws23rt on October 06, 2013, 08:29:39 PM
Great pictures-- Oh and I presume you don't have cats? Mine love to bird watch but they are not into hunting. (so far :-\)
Not anymore Bruce. We did have when we first moved up here some 30 years ago as we weren't going to leave them behind but we decided we wouldn't own anymore after they passed on.
(http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h351/mohead7/cid_47448A14CEA9452FBC66F3C084D82976ErikaPC_zpsb1cd08e0.png) (http://s1105.photobucket.com/user/mohead7/media/cid_47448A14CEA9452FBC66F3C084D82976ErikaPC_zpsb1cd08e0.png.html)
Thanks for posting a pic of your old friends. I understand your decision about adopting more.
Mine are rescue from my sisters passing and they may last as long as I do but their life and company here is a done deal. :cheers:
Quote from: Chargerguy74 on October 06, 2013, 07:54:56 PM
Right on Fred, I was hoping to see some kooks, you didn't disappoint.
Happy to oblige :2thumbs:
Quote from: nvrbdn on October 06, 2013, 08:11:09 AM
absolutely awesome fred. thanks. :2thumbs:
:2thumbs:
Quote from: Fred on October 06, 2013, 08:07:58 PM
Can't get any work done.......
Is that a Bessey clamp I see on the ground?
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 06, 2013, 09:55:10 PM
Quote from: Fred on October 06, 2013, 08:07:58 PM
Can't get any work done.......
Is that a Bessey clamp I see on the ground?
No, it belongs to me! :icon_smile_big:
Quote from: Fred on October 06, 2013, 08:44:45 PM
Quote from: ws23rt on October 06, 2013, 08:29:39 PM
Great pictures-- Oh and I presume you don't have cats? Mine love to bird watch but they are not into hunting. (so far :-\)
Not anymore Bruce. We did have when we first moved up here some 30 years ago as we weren't going to leave them behind but we decided we wouldn't own anymore after they passed on.
(http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h351/mohead7/cid_47448A14CEA9452FBC66F3C084D82976ErikaPC_zpsb1cd08e0.png) (http://s1105.photobucket.com/user/mohead7/media/cid_47448A14CEA9452FBC66F3C084D82976ErikaPC_zpsb1cd08e0.png.html)
That's it, I'm coming back as a cat!
Dogs have owners.......cats have staff. Just sayin'.....
Quote from: twodko on October 07, 2013, 11:23:33 AM
Dogs have owners.......cats have staff. Just sayin'.....
How true.
I have cats, so I don't entice the birds with baths or seed...kinda like inviting them to the smorgasbord where they are the main course. Love the pictures Fred. Your birds are much more colorful than what we see around here.
Quote from: burnout.dawg on October 07, 2013, 07:55:58 PM
I have cats, so I don't entice the birds with baths or seed...kinda like inviting them to the smorgasbord where they are the main course. Love the pictures Fred. Your birds are much more colorful than what we see around here.
Our ground birds such as the yellow breasted robin is slowly disappearing as more and more people moving to the hills have cats. When we first moved up here, they were in abundance. They'd actually sit close by when we were digging in the garden and weren't at all shy grabbing any worms or grubs that surfaced.
And even though we have a cat curfew in place,not to many people are abiding by it.
Crimson Rosellas
Quote from: Fred on October 07, 2013, 10:02:20 PM
And even though we have a cat curfew in place,not to many people are abiding by it.
Do the cats abide by this curfew? Our cats run wild here. :o
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 07, 2013, 10:56:42 PM
Quote from: Fred on October 07, 2013, 10:02:20 PM
And even though we have a cat curfew in place,not to many people are abiding by it.
Do the cats abide by this curfew? Our cats run wild here. :o
Are you kidding! Cats don't abide to anything. They're a law unto themselves. :lol:
Interestingly enough though, Burmese are wonderful cats. Our two cats (pictured) both fetched. If you threw a small ball or other object, the cats would chase it down and bring it back and lay it at our feet ready for another throw.
Not only that, they would also go into the neighbours yards and steal small objects and bring them home. One time one of our cats pinched a cardigan off a chair left outside and dragged it home. I saw her coming up the driveway with it and every so often she'd stop and look about her to make sure she wasn't being chased down. I had to keep returning neighbours property and pretty soon, if anything went missing, the neighbours new where to come.
One time one of them pinched a hat form the new neighbour (she was outside gardening and took it off) and after the woman had finished I saw her looking all around for it totally bemused. It was too funny. I didn't give it back till the next day.
Quote from: Fred on October 07, 2013, 11:15:02 PM
Interestingly enough though, Burmese are wonderful cats. Our two cats (pictured) both fetched. If you threw a small ball or other object, the cats would chase it down and bring it back and lay it at our feet ready for another throw.
Not only that, they would also go into the neighbours yards and steal small objects and bring them home. One time one of our cats pinched a cardigan off a chair left outside and dragged it home. I saw her coming up the driveway with it and every so often she'd stop and look about her to make sure she wasn't being chased down. I had to keep returning neighbours property and pretty soon, if anything went missing, the neighbours new where to come.
One time one of them pinched a hat form the new neighbour (she was outside gardening and took it off) and after the woman had finished I saw her looking all around for it totally bemused. It was too funny. I didn't give it back till the next day.
Could I borrow your cats, I need a Hemi shipped from Austrialia.
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 07, 2013, 11:18:16 PM
Quote from: Fred on October 07, 2013, 11:15:02 PM
Interestingly enough though, Burmese are wonderful cats. Our two cats (pictured) both fetched. If you threw a small ball or other object, the cats would chase it down and bring it back and lay it at our feet ready for another throw.
Not only that, they would also go into the neighbours yards and steal small objects and bring them home. One time one of our cats pinched a cardigan off a chair left outside and dragged it home. I saw her coming up the driveway with it and every so often she'd stop and look about her to make sure she wasn't being chased down. I had to keep returning neighbours property and pretty soon, if anything went missing, the neighbours new where to come.
One time one of them pinched a hat form the new neighbour (she was outside gardening and took it off) and after the woman had finished I saw her looking all around for it totally bemused. It was too funny. I didn't give it back till the next day.
Could I borrow your cats, I need a Hemi shipped from Austrialia.
Ha ha!! Sadly both cats have passed on now. Besides, I don't know of any cat that can cart home an elephant.
By the way, this is Mrs. Fred. I wrote that about the cats but forgot to sign my name. My schizophrenia sometimes leaves me confused.
Mrs. Fred
Well hello Mrs Fred, sure would love to have a backyard like yours.
Thankyou John, it is pretty special. And not only is it a haven for birds, all animals are welcome. During our last drought even the resident Echidna had a hard time finding water. He was just going round in circles so Fred said to me......he thinks the Echidna is looking for water so I went and put some out for him and this is the result..........
He spent a good 10 minutes just drinking.
That is so cool.
I apologise for hijacking my own thread. This wallaby is in the neighbours back yard.
really neat. :2thumbs:
Taken from inside the house so a little bit blurry. Male and female Gang Gang
Erika,
Are Echidna members of the porcupine genus?
Hi Tom,
I don't think so.
Echidna's are native to Australia and New Guinea.
Baby Echidna's are called puggles.........cute huh?
Here are some facts for you to peruse...........
Echidnas are small, solitary mammals[3] covered with coarse hair and spines. Superficially, they resemble the anteaters of South America and other spiny mammals such as hedgehogs and porcupines. They have elongated and slender snouts which function as both mouth and nose. Like the platypus, they are equipped with electrosensors, but while the platypus has 40,000 electroreceptors on its bill, the long-billed echidna has only 2,000, and the short-billed echidna, which lives in a drier environment, has no more than 400 located at the tip of its snout.[4] They have very short, strong limbs with large claws, and are powerful diggers. Echidnas have tiny mouths and toothless jaws. The echidna feeds by tearing open soft logs, anthills and the like, and using its long, sticky tongue, which protrudes from its snout, to collect prey. The short-beaked echidna's diet consists largely of ants and termites, while the Zaglossus species typically eats worms and insect larvae.[5]
Long-beaked echidnas have sharp, tiny spines on their tongues that help capture their prey.[5]
Echidnas and the platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The female lays a single soft-shelled, leathery egg 22 days after mating, and deposits it directly into her pouch. Hatching takes place after 10 days; the young echidna then sucks milk from the pores of the two milk patches (monotremes have no nipples) and remains in the pouch for 45 to 55 days,[6] at which time it starts to develop spines. The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the young, returning every five days to suckle it until it is weaned at seven months.
The heck with coming back as a cat, I wannabe a Echidna.
Whatever animal you choose to come back as.........if you end up in our household........you've got it made! :2thumbs:
I nearly got a pic of a wombat this morning. Taking my daily walk this morning I went through the forest and up ahead I saw a big fat wombat crossing my path. Unfortunately as I crept closer to get the shot he heard me and scampered of into the undergrowth.
Mrs. Fred
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Thanks Erika!
Before I met and married Diane I may have dated one of these. Wild times there were as I recall. :smilielol:
"Echidnas are small, solitary mammals[3] covered with coarse hair and spines. Superficially, they resemble the anteaters of South America and other spiny mammals such as hedgehogs and porcupines. They have elongated and slender snouts which function as both mouth and nose. Like the platypus, they are equipped with electrosensors, but while the platypus has 40,000 electroreceptors on its bill, the long-billed echidna has only 2,000, and the short-billed echidna, which lives in a drier environment, has no more than 400 located at the tip of its snout.[4] They have very short, strong limbs with large claws, and are powerful diggers. Echidnas have tiny mouths and toothless jaws. The echidna feeds by tearing open soft logs, anthills and the like, and using its long, sticky tongue, which protrudes from its snout, to collect prey. The short-beaked echidna's diet consists largely of ants and termites, while the Zaglossus species typically eats worms and insect larvae.[5]"
Quote from: Fred on October 09, 2013, 06:44:40 PM
I nearly got a pic of a wombat this morning. Taking my daily walk this morning I went through the forest and up ahead I saw a big fat wombat crossing my path. Unfortunately as I crept closer to get the shot he heard me and scampered of into the undergrowth.
Mrs. Fred
That would be cool to see.
Quote from: twodko on October 09, 2013, 08:09:30 PM
Thanks Erika!
Before I met and married Diane I may have dated one of these. Wild times there were as I recall. :smilielol:
"Echidnas are small, solitary mammals[3] covered with coarse hair and spines. Superficially, they resemble the anteaters of South America and other spiny mammals such as hedgehogs and porcupines. They have elongated and slender snouts which function as both mouth and nose. Like the platypus, they are equipped with electrosensors, but while the platypus has 40,000 electroreceptors on its bill, the long-billed echidna has only 2,000, and the short-billed echidna, which lives in a drier environment, has no more than 400 located at the tip of its snout.[4] They have very short, strong limbs with large claws, and are powerful diggers. Echidnas have tiny mouths and toothless jaws. The echidna feeds by tearing open soft logs, anthills and the like, and using its long, sticky tongue, which protrudes from its snout, to collect prey. The short-beaked echidna's diet consists largely of ants and termites, while the Zaglossus species typically eats worms and insect larvae.[5]"
I'm sure Fred dated his fair share too. Before I came along and sorted him out. :lol: God only knows what he hooked up with in the bars of the ports around the world during his sea faring days.
E.
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 09, 2013, 08:15:31 PM
Quote from: Fred on October 09, 2013, 06:44:40 PM
I nearly got a pic of a wombat this morning. Taking my daily walk this morning I went through the forest and up ahead I saw a big fat wombat crossing my path. Unfortunately as I crept closer to get the shot he heard me and scampered of into the undergrowth.
Mrs. Fred
That would be cool to see.
Yes, sadly I messed up.
Mrs. Fred
Don't feel bad. I just scared away 4 does on the way back to my place.
Are wombat's shy? They look so cute and cuddly.
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 12:26:19 AM
Don't feel bad. I just scared away 4 does on the way back to my place.
Are you saying that not one of them wanted to come home with you? :smilielol: You might need to work on your pick up lines.
Quote from: burnout.dawg on October 10, 2013, 12:54:09 AM
Are wombat's shy? They look so cute and cuddly.
They're mostly nocturnal which is why you don't see them much during the day but here in the hills I see them out and about a lot on my walks. Mostly returning to their burrows after feeding through the night or even still grazing where they don't feel threatened. But even though they look cute and cuddly you wouldn't want to approach one with the intention of patting it.
They grow to one metre in length and can weigh up to 70 lbs and are very strong and a startled wombat can charge humans and bowl them over.
And although I scared mine off today, they do defend home territories centred on their burrows, and they react aggressively to intruders. Humans who accidentally find themselves in a fray with a wombat may find it best to scale a tree until the animal calms and leaves. Humans can receive puncture wounds from wombat claws, as well as bites.
So to sum it up, they're best enjoyed from a distance.
Mrs. Fred
Quote from: Fred on October 10, 2013, 01:17:23 AM
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 12:26:19 AM
Don't feel bad. I just scared away 4 does on the way back to my place.
Are you saying that not one of them wanted to come home with you? :smilielol: You might need to work on your pick up lines.
They would have come home with me, I just needed a deer tag :drool5: :drool5: :drool5:
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 07:59:52 AM
Quote from: Fred on October 10, 2013, 01:17:23 AM
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 12:26:19 AM
Don't feel bad. I just scared away 4 does on the way back to my place.
Are you saying that not one of them wanted to come home with you? :smilielol: You might need to work on your pick up lines.
They would have come home with me, I just needed a deer tag :drool5: :drool5: :drool5:
Remember the Govt. is shutdown, open season, who's going to check for a deer tag.
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 10, 2013, 09:24:22 AM
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 07:59:52 AM
Quote from: Fred on October 10, 2013, 01:17:23 AM
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 12:26:19 AM
Don't feel bad. I just scared away 4 does on the way back to my place.
Are you saying that not one of them wanted to come home with you? :smilielol: You might need to work on your pick up lines.
They would have come home with me, I just needed a deer tag :drool5: :drool5: :drool5:
Remember the Govt. is shutdown, open season, who's going to check for a deer tag.
Federal govt. is shut down. State govt. is still at work and in charge of the Conservation Dept. Deer tags are state issued
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 01:09:21 PM
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 10, 2013, 09:24:22 AM
Remember the Govt. is shutdown, open season, who's going to check for a deer tag.
Federal govt. is shut down. State govt. is still at work and in charge of the Conservation Dept. Deer tags are state issued
:brickwall: can you tell I don't hunt.
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 10, 2013, 03:50:57 PM
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 01:09:21 PM
Quote from: Mopar Nut on October 10, 2013, 09:24:22 AM
Remember the Govt. is shutdown, open season, who's going to check for a deer tag.
Federal govt. is shut down. State govt. is still at work and in charge of the Conservation Dept. Deer tags are state issued
:brickwall: can you tell I don't hunt.
I don't either, but know enough people that do. I prefer fishing, in which, you have to get a permit for that as well from the state. What erks me though is the state makes you buy a tag to kill a deer, but they won't pay you if one of their deer jumps out and wrecks your vehicle.
Quote from: stroker400 wedge on October 10, 2013, 03:54:04 PM
What erks me though is the state makes you buy a tag to kill a deer, but they won't pay you if one of their deer jumps out and wrecks your vehicle.
Those are the ones they don't own, :slap: I had one total a car I was driving. It was like hitting a :brickwall:
Quote from: Fred on October 09, 2013, 08:34:07 PM
Quote from: twodko on October 09, 2013, 08:09:30 PM
Thanks Erika!
Before I met and married Diane I may have dated one of these. Wild times there were as I recall. :smilielol:
"Echidnas are small, solitary mammals[3] covered with coarse hair and spines. Superficially, they resemble the anteaters of South America and other spiny mammals such as hedgehogs and porcupines. They have elongated and slender snouts which function as both mouth and nose. Like the platypus, they are equipped with electrosensors, but while the platypus has 40,000 electroreceptors on its bill, the long-billed echidna has only 2,000, and the short-billed echidna, which lives in a drier environment, has no more than 400 located at the tip of its snout.[4] They have very short, strong limbs with large claws, and are powerful diggers. Echidnas have tiny mouths and toothless jaws. The echidna feeds by tearing open soft logs, anthills and the like, and using its long, sticky tongue, which protrudes from its snout, to collect prey. The short-beaked echidna's diet consists largely of ants and termites, while the Zaglossus species typically eats worms and insect larvae.[5]"
I'm sure Fred dated his fair share too. Before I came along and sorted him out. :lol: God only knows what he hooked up with in the bars of the ports around the world during his sea faring days.
E.
Hey now, lets not cast disparaging remarks on a fellow brother of the sea. :D
Aussie magpie (female)
:2thumbs: do you get the currawongs
Fred,
Could you include some sound effects with some of these, too? I have only been to Australia a few times, but what struck me was all the weird sounds those birds make. The warding (raven?) sounds wreaked havoc with my jet lagged family. We were half awake and had no idea what was making that sound.
Yes, that's one behind the king. They're really quite tame. Will take the bread out of your hand. Love their haunting call.
my father had a "tame" wild one that would sit on his arm and take pieces on sausage out of his hand (no biting) they know when your not going to hurt them :yesnod:
Quote from: XH29N0G on October 19, 2013, 08:20:05 PM
Fred,
Could you include some sound effects with some of these, too? I have only been to Australia a few times, but what struck me was all the weird sounds those birds make. The warding (raven?) sounds wreaked havoc with my jet lagged family. We were half awake and had no idea what was making that sound.
If you think our bird calls a strange XH you need to get out in the bush (or just our back yard for that matter) at night and listen to a possum calling. When we first moved up here from the suburbs, I walked around the place in the dark when all of a sudden I heard this noise.....a sound I'd never heard before.......it sounded like a wild, BIG cat.......it scared the stuffing out of me. I had nothing to protect myself with so I hightailed it back inside and told the wife about it. Imagine how foolish I felt when we found out it was just possums calling out to one another. Here was me thinking I was going to be some wild animals dinner!
Quote from: polywideblock on October 19, 2013, 08:33:38 PM
my father had a "tame" wild one that would sit on his arm and take pieces on sausage out of his hand (no biting) they know when your not going to hurt them :yesnod:
Yes, on the whole they're mainly here in Autumn and are pretty timid but we have a pair that are with us all year round. They seem to have made the bush beyond our backyard their home. And they've known us for some years now. They come for a feed when food is in short supply. Which seems to be every day at the moment ha ha!! and are not afraid of us.
I'll put that on my to do list. Don't know when I will make it back to your side of the world though.
This one's following me all around the house going from window to window just hanging on the frame. (I'm inside)
Nosy little critter. Cats would love your home :smilielol:
Yes it would be a smorgasbord alright. Fortunately the dogs keep them at bay.
Aww ... C'est l'amour!
Dankeschoen. :icon_smile_big:
Quote from: Fred on November 15, 2013, 09:44:20 PM
This one's following me all around the house going from window to window just hanging on the frame. (I'm inside)
Have you ever seen the movie Birds?
Yes, it's one of Erika's favourites.
When we first moved to this place there were a couple of currawongs hanging around so Erika got some bread and went to feed them. (we were only just getting to know some of these birds.........don't see them in the suburbs). Next minute there was another and another and then still more and more and more. In the end there must have been around 60 birds all at her feet. It was the time of year they come through and it got pretty intense because they were all flying at her to try to get a feed and she was a bit concerned that one of them might accidently hit her in the eye with it's beak. That was definitely a bit of a "The Birds" moment except for the fact they weren't attacking to kill. But we did decide it would be safer to come inside until they cleared off. She did have to slide her feet along the ground for fear of treading on them.
Now we just have our resident pair and their young (we seem to have a pair of everything lol) that have made our place their home and we don't feed the ones that are just passing through.
It's one of mine too by Alfred Hitchcock, I remember watching it when it first came out in 1963.
Were you young enough to be scared or old enough to take it in your stride?
Erika has it on dvd, it's her favourite A. H. movie.
I was too young to be scared and enjoyed eating Chicken after that much better. :icon_smile_big:
are you scared now?
Never too old to be scared.
I never have found that movie to be scary. :shruggy:
We don't think it's scary either, just good entertainment.
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This is what kookas do on a hot day. They just kind of luff up their feathers, loll their heads to he side and open their beaks.
Just took this. Thought it was rather cute with the King perched in the middle. And thought the contrast was rather nice.
This King is without tail. Don't know how he lost it but he's been like that for a few years now so I'm guessing tail feathers don't grow back.
He looks funny when he's flying.
He's got nice coloration
Yes but he can't shake his tail feathers! ;D
Someone's keeping an eye on the chops..........
A black cockatoo chick waiting patiently for mum to feed it.
Feeding frenzy......
Welcome back Fred, it's been awhile, missed your posts.
Great pics of the birds. I enjoy them. :2thumbs:
Thanks mate. :cheers:
:wave: Glad to see you back Fred!
Hopefully Poly will be back soon! :'(
Those bird pics are great. Thanks for reviving this. :2thumbs:
Quote from: Mopar Nut on September 30, 2017, 03:06:45 AM
:wave: Glad to see you back Fred!
Hopefully Poly will be back soon! :'(
Thanks Mopar Nut. :2thumbs:
Yes, very sad to hear about Poly. Good to hear he's on the mend.
Quote from: nvrbdn on September 30, 2017, 07:15:12 AM
Those bird pics are great. Thanks for reviving this. :2thumbs:
Hey Jim! :cheers:
Actually there are a lot of good threads that have been laying dormant for too long. Pity.
Gallah (Rose breasted Cockatoo)..........
Our resident Echidna is back...........
I caught this little bird running around in the bushes.
OMG! not Plucka!......he's been lost for ages. And where on Earth is Ossie?
Not Freds bird but this girl is pretty cute. Been feeding her at the park for a couple of years, she'll take food from your hand.
I'm enjoying the pics & stories, thanks!
Last one reminds me of a wild goose I tamed enough to hand feed at a nearby pond.
I named her Muck-muck because that's the sound she loudly made while waddling over to get her treats.
As soon as she saw us she'd start MUCK-MUCKing all the way to us from across the pond.
The kids and I fed her for a few years until a coyote got her. :'(
Muck-muck :lol: that's funny, sad about the coyote though :'( We nicknamed the goose above Aflac after the commercials. She also comes running over when you have food for her, brings a smile to your face.
Quote from: 440 on December 10, 2017, 04:57:13 AM
Not Freds bird but this girl is pretty cute. Been feeding her at the park for a couple of years, she'll take food from your hand.
That is one good looking bird............oops! ........I mean duck.
Quote from: BDF on December 10, 2017, 11:31:16 AM
I'm enjoying the pics & stories, thanks!
Last one reminds me of a wild goose I tamed enough to hand feed at a nearby pond.
I named her Muck-muck because that's the sound she loudly made while waddling over to get her treats.
As soon as she saw us she'd start MUCK-MUCKing all the way to us from across the pond.
The kids and I fed her for a few years until a coyote got her. :'(
Muck-muck...........that's cute.
Two adults with four chicks........
Anybody home?.........
Quote from: Fred on June 20, 2018, 09:27:04 PM
Two adults with four chicks........
All I see is 6 Thrush stickers. :icon_smile_big:
If they're like the pigeons in my area, I bet they're a mess to have around.
Do they have a nice song to them?
Quote from: JB400 on June 23, 2018, 12:53:20 PM
If they're like the pigeons in my area, I bet they're a mess to have around.
Do they have a nice song to them?
Oddly enough there's no mess with the Kookaburras even when they sit around all day. The Magpies and Currawong on the other hand leave splotches everywhere. (one lot white the other purple) But now that we have Pippa patrolling the yard they tend to pass through rather than hang around so no more bird droppings.
Kookaburras don't sing, they laugh. It's a sound we never get sick of. If I had to define Australia I would sum it up in one word....kookaburra.
The Magpies have a lovely trill. The Currawong make a sort of haunting sound.
So, if I show up in Australia, and get laughed at when I get off the plane, that's a good thing? :icon_smile_big:
Better than being shat on!!! :icon_smile_big:
Spent the first several days wondering what that sound was - thought some sort of wounded cat - but not right - then I learned about currawongs. The other sounds boggle my mind. My favorite was a bunch of chiming wedgebills singing in the round.
I love the haunting sound of the Currawong as they come through every Autumn. Some hand around all year but the majority just pass through.
Have you ever heard possums screaming in the night? If you're not familiar with that sound it can scare the pants off you. (or worse :icon_smile_big: )
Galah's sitting on the power lines across the road........
We are looking forward to having king parrots around and the other Victorian species when we move there.
We will miss our family of Magpies though when we move. Been hand feeding them for about a year now and they are so tame, almost like pets really.