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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 272322" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Instead of three parrots we have two budgies. And because we've been busy (and often away from the house) plus difficult child 3 has had a bad cold, they haven't been getting handled as much as usual. So now I have a little more time, it's back to millet training for the pair of them. Luckily Buddy is a fast learner. Unfortunately, so is Daisy, I think she's learned to open my bathroom cabinet and is trying out my make-up. I'd swear my eyeliner has gone missing, and I found a sachet of moisturiser with beak-holes in it...</p><p></p><p>But for noise you can't beat our local railway station and its avenues of trees. At sunset they fill with Rainbow Lorikeets all arguing over whose turn it is to sit on that patch of branch, and who gets to nibble the fruit in the tuckeroo trees. Just the flapping of their wings is loud, there are so many of them, but then they set to squawking and you can't make youself be heard over them. They drown out the sound of the trains.</p><p></p><p>The only things noisier (maybe) are Flying Foxes (in the same numbers), our large fruit bats. I've visited a woman who had some of these living in her house (she was nursing them back to health plus raising some babies). It was very disconcerting when they hung from the rafters like so many discarded umbrellas, then occasionally would fly across the room to land on her, asking for a piece of banana... that sort of thing doesn't go on these days, not with Lyssa Virus such a concern.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your fids, Abbey.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 272322, member: 1991"] Instead of three parrots we have two budgies. And because we've been busy (and often away from the house) plus difficult child 3 has had a bad cold, they haven't been getting handled as much as usual. So now I have a little more time, it's back to millet training for the pair of them. Luckily Buddy is a fast learner. Unfortunately, so is Daisy, I think she's learned to open my bathroom cabinet and is trying out my make-up. I'd swear my eyeliner has gone missing, and I found a sachet of moisturiser with beak-holes in it... But for noise you can't beat our local railway station and its avenues of trees. At sunset they fill with Rainbow Lorikeets all arguing over whose turn it is to sit on that patch of branch, and who gets to nibble the fruit in the tuckeroo trees. Just the flapping of their wings is loud, there are so many of them, but then they set to squawking and you can't make youself be heard over them. They drown out the sound of the trains. The only things noisier (maybe) are Flying Foxes (in the same numbers), our large fruit bats. I've visited a woman who had some of these living in her house (she was nursing them back to health plus raising some babies). It was very disconcerting when they hung from the rafters like so many discarded umbrellas, then occasionally would fly across the room to land on her, asking for a piece of banana... that sort of thing doesn't go on these days, not with Lyssa Virus such a concern. Enjoy your fids, Abbey. Marg [/QUOTE]
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