"Are you listening to me?"
"I asked, are you listening to me?"
"Not really"
"Well, I won't listen to you then!"
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Haha! Lovely set of photos, Wollemi! Those shots made me smile :-)
M.M.
Nice shote and well captioned
Very well-captioned photographs. Do you get many of those in your area?
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera
A couple of weeks ago we had a cloud of long-billed Corellas land on a conifer tree down the road and spend a good part of the day tearing the nuts from it, which amuses me no end because my next door neighbour who is not keen on birds especially corellas of any kind has completed surrounded his property with conifers. :) He does not understand my fondness for all things avian. I await the growth of the trees and the following shocked response from said neighbour! I have clever neighbours, another who is not fond of flying foxes has planted over thirty large lilly pilly trees! :)
We had one pair nest successfully in a hollow in a tree in our yard this year. While they are native to Australia they are not indigenous to the Penrith area.
I have heard a tale that someone had bred them and wanted to sell them in a pet shop and when council would not approve their pet shop they let them all loose and we have had growing numbers of them since. How much truth is in the story I do not know.
May the rains be sufficient to bring the conifers and lilly-pillys to fruitition!
Happy Birding!
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Yes, we're battling environmentally irresponsible behavior at all levels of our society, Wollemi.
Woko, when next door gets inundated with large parrots tearing the nuts from the conifer I will consider it to be just 'punishment' for their removal of a very old scribbly gum three weeks after a little corella took up residence in a hollow in it.
Happy Birding!
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I reckon it is very possible your birds are descended from natural wild vagrants.
This species had a massive range expansion when drought struck its western Vic heartland and vagrants were forced to stray far and wide in search of better pastures. even under normal circumstances they are highly nomadic.
though it's going to be impossible to prove what with their being fairly popular in captivity and escapees and releases occurring occasionally.