Birds

[Splitpin]

Just went outside for a ciggi .... and the back yard is full of birds , it wasn't so much the number , but the variety .

Sparrows , goldfinches , greenfinches, waxeyes, starlings a couple of blackbirds and a chaffinch ..... odd.

I feed the little buggers everyday ... cooked rice, peas and grain bread but ive never seen so many all together .... better go and prepare their lunch, could be the start of an uprising

[Ian Warren]

I have a couple Blackbirds and a family dart across the fence ... cunning buggers they are, they no how to torment ole Marbars , bloody funny to watch .

[Yob]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 14 2013,9:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have a couple Blackbirds and a family dart across the fence ... cunning buggers they are, they no how to torment ole Marbars , bloody funny to watch .

Your mean but it is a cat so it does not really matter if ya mean to it. Yea here in aus we have lot less variety that come to you. I like King parrots, because some will land on you and you can hand feed them.

[Ian Warren]

Yeah Yeah , then ya get your crazy gallas .. hi as a kite and attack ya

[Yob]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 14 2013,11:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah Yeah , then ya get your crazy gallas .. hi as a kite and attack ya

Stupid things don't even move when you drive towards them. And if they do move they flaming fly towards you, then blood gets on ya car.

[jastheace]

i have seen quite a few gallahs swinging around the power lines, squawking their head off thinking its a great lark, funnest i have seen though was a gallah landing on an orange then rolling about the place as the orange promptly rolled out from under it, crazy birds, them and cockatoos they are just as nuts playing chicken with my truck, guess who wins.....

[Splitpin]

Many moons ago .... i had one of those sulphur crested guys (John) .... what a hard case .... taught him to talk. Super intelligent , if the phone rang he would say "its for you" i think he learnt more by just listening ....spooky really . He's still here with my ex , must be 15 years old now.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jul 14 2013,6:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

.... i had one of those sulphur crested guys (John) ..... Super intelligent , if the phone rang he would say "its for you"

I looked after one here for a few weeks , it even knew what the aircraft carrier was for ... TRUE ... also knew how to chew it apart ! .... Damn Bird

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 14 2013,5:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I looked after one here for a few weeks , it even knew what the aircraft carrier was for ... TRUE ... also knew how to chew it apart ! .... Damn Bird

yep ..... you know there was a study done and parrots were found to the most intelligent of all animals .... and the NZ Kea came out on top of them all.

[lowglow]

I can hear a tui

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (lowglow @ Jul 14 2013,9:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I can hear a tui

BURP ... hard to imagine a parrot in my place a Chris... but it really just flew around and around CRAZY !

[Yob]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jul 14 2013,4:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

yep ..... you know there was a study done and parrots were found to the most intelligent of all animals .... and the NZ Kea came out on top of them all.

Yea there was a doco on the Kea when i was younger. Loved it watched it so many the VHS died and lost it forever. Up in Arthur's Pass the keas are really clever they now how to open the lid on bins and how to push a brick of it.

[jastheace]

QUOTE (Yob @ Jul 19 2013,9:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yea there was a doco on the Kea when i was younger. Loved it watched it so many the VHS died and lost it forever. Up in Arthur's Pass the keas are really clever they now how to open the lid on bins and how to push a brick of it.

Funny you mention kea. When I was going to school in the South Island we used to go in school skiing trips up mount hutt. Watching the kea go to work was really cool. Some yuppie brought his new convertible up the mountain while we were there. The kea stopped trying to get the windscreen wipers of the bus and went to work on the roof of his car. Needless to say there was very little left when he got back. My grandfather has climbed every mountian in the South Island. He was always telling us stories of the kea landing on the roof of the huts and sliding down the tin until the got some food. Then the would take off and repeat he process the next day. Amazing birds they are. Just don't leave anything rubber on your car if you want it to stay there!!!

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jul 14 2013,6:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

yep ..... you know there was a study done and parrots were found to the most intelligent of all animals .... and the NZ Kea came out on top of them all.

I had a tame Kea back in the late 50s when I was working on the Haast road it used to travel everywhere with me in the Landrover even traveled from Paringa to Murchison and back a few times
How did I get and tame a kea long story.

[Yob]

QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jul 14 2013,8:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I had a tame Kea back in the late 50s when I was working on the Haast road it used to travel everywhere with me in the Landrover even traveled from Paringa to Murchison and back a few times
How did I get and tame a kea long story.

I reckon ya should write a book about ya life it sounds pretty interesting. Every one should they all have some interesting stories to tell. Write em down so there not lost forever.