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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 62523" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Enjoy your birds.</p><p></p><p>I wish you could drop in over here for a visit and meet our wild parrots. It's water they love, rather than feed. We put out bowls of water (like a lettuce keeper size of bowl, minimum) and these birds throw themselves in with delight and argue over whose turn it is next. Our neighbours have bowls on their balcony - they use plastic ice cream containers. You nail them to a timber base then put a second ice-cream container inside the nailed one, and fill the inner one with water. The nailed outer one keeps the containers from being knocked over (or knocked off, as in purloined).</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.graemechapman.com.au/cgi-bin/viewphotos.php?c=318&pg=3" target="_blank">http://www.graemechapman.com.au/cgi-bin/viewphotos.php?c=318&pg=3</a></p><p></p><p>Here is a photo - imagine a flock of thirty or more of these, all screeching in an hour before sunset (or two hours after sunrise) to have their baths. Noisily. Their antics are wonderful! But they can bully other birds, so it's fortunate they tend to feed in flocks, at certain times only. difficult child 1 loves birds and has really studied the behaviour of these birds, so when he had to choose which animal to play in the Noah's Ark scene in the movie, he asked to be a Rainbow Lorikeet. He did it in a soccer hooligan sort of way, organising a street fight with the second 'Rainbow Lorikeet'.</p><p></p><p>Out on the headland we have smaller birds, insect eaters and honey-eaters. Sometimes they swim in our in-ground bird-bath under the trees. Kookaburras try to fish for the tadpoles breeding in there.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your birds. They really are wonderful.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 62523, member: 1991"] Enjoy your birds. I wish you could drop in over here for a visit and meet our wild parrots. It's water they love, rather than feed. We put out bowls of water (like a lettuce keeper size of bowl, minimum) and these birds throw themselves in with delight and argue over whose turn it is next. Our neighbours have bowls on their balcony - they use plastic ice cream containers. You nail them to a timber base then put a second ice-cream container inside the nailed one, and fill the inner one with water. The nailed outer one keeps the containers from being knocked over (or knocked off, as in purloined). [url="http://www.graemechapman.com.au/cgi-bin/viewphotos.php?c=318&pg=3"]http://www.graemechapman.com.au/cgi-bin/viewphotos.php?c=318&pg=3[/url] Here is a photo - imagine a flock of thirty or more of these, all screeching in an hour before sunset (or two hours after sunrise) to have their baths. Noisily. Their antics are wonderful! But they can bully other birds, so it's fortunate they tend to feed in flocks, at certain times only. difficult child 1 loves birds and has really studied the behaviour of these birds, so when he had to choose which animal to play in the Noah's Ark scene in the movie, he asked to be a Rainbow Lorikeet. He did it in a soccer hooligan sort of way, organising a street fight with the second 'Rainbow Lorikeet'. Out on the headland we have smaller birds, insect eaters and honey-eaters. Sometimes they swim in our in-ground bird-bath under the trees. Kookaburras try to fish for the tadpoles breeding in there. Enjoy your birds. They really are wonderful. Marg [/QUOTE]
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