Every now and then I snap a photo that I am just really happy with! Today is one of those days.
Captured this shot this morning of a Galah and I just really like the photo.
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You've really got his attention. Great photo. Love it when you get one of those photos you are very happy with. Been a while since I have had one.
Good shot, Wollemi! Like Devster said, you have caught his eye. Thanks for sharing with us!
M.M.
Lots of eye contact there! Love it.
Thanks for the lovely comments. I think he is planning to chew his way right through that vey large branch!
Does anyone think large parrots actively create hollows? I know hollows take 100 years to happen but I have seen various parrots all doing the same thing and also returning to places that they have chewed to drink water for the few days after rain. I know it is a big ask for a bird to saw off limb of a tree with their beak but I am wondering if they help the process along with that in mind.
My husband and I have both seen a lot of this behaviour in our old Scribbly Gums by everything from rainbow lorkeets through to the sulphur-crested cockatoos so we are wondering about that.
Happy Birding!
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Great shot Wollemi!
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera
Wollemi, I seriously doubt parrots see themselves as contributing to the sawing off of tree limbs. They may instinctively contribute to the formation of hollows by chewing wood but that wood would have deteriorated through many, many decades of natural decay.
The Rainbow Lorikeets, Sulphur-crested Cockatoos & other birds at work in the Scribbly Gums would be seeking out the grubs which make the scribbles, I suggest.
thanks everyone!
Woko,
Our scribbly gums don't have much of the grubs in them at all, and hence very few, if any, scribbles, which made identifying the trees quite a puzzle for me that was sorted out by the Local Land Service Representative.
I did at first think that the parrots were grub hunting but just wondered if they were pruning for their own purposes. Their chewing habit happens all year through so perhaps they are simply keeping the grubs numbers very limited.
Thanks!
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Interesting, Wollemi. With lots of lorikeets & cockatoos & few scribbles your idea of the birds keeping grub numbers down might be on the money.
Pruning is another matter. I've often wondered what the purpose of pruning by Little Corellas might be. I can see that bugs & beetles would benefit from the bounty of fallen leaves & twigs. The mulch would help preserve soil moisture. Perhaps the trees benefit from the pruning. After all, human orchadists prune to make their trees more productive. Or maybe there's a social function of pruning such as the copmmon task keeping the flock bonded. Maybe all of these are benefits of bird pruning.