General Chat

There are lots of them around here, and they're not shy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAb-ObjIH4

It's raining, and two of them got out of the wet.... and sat in my hanging baskets on the back deck (under cover) and sang to me. Beautiful.

The clip is on youtube, but it's not my house.


:-D

What lovely calls they have

Gosh.......... Don't they kick up a din!

Beautiful though.

A couple of years ago a friend from England came to visit.

First morning here, he staggered downstairs and said..... you have the noisiest birds in the world here!

Later that day he heard the kookaburras, about twelve of them, laughing their heads off, and was stunned. :-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA0-YAoo9Q

Thank you for that Scozz - I enjoyed it.

You have an amazing variety of birds in Aus, and I always found them fascinating - yes they are noisy, particularly the cockatoos, but beautiful.

The dawn chorus, particularly in the country areas is a sound never to be forgotten.

I love our British birds, and fill the feeders every day. They are attractive in their own way with albeit muted colours, and discreet song.

I doubt the day a sulphur crested cockatoo will land on my bird table :-D

A home bred cockatoo, galah etc to keep as a pet, can cost anything between £2,000 - £3,000 here.

lol Tec

We have cockatoos too...... big white monsters that SCREECH! In early spring we get big black cockatoos, they go all over the place to eat the seeds of trees (they love grevilleas), they are very noisy.

A few years ago, DH was on a conference call, others from US & Europe. It was nearly dawn here, and he was outside with his coffee mug in one hand and the telephone in the other. As the sun came up..... the dawn chorus..... eveyone on the call stopped talking, then.......... WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? They thought we lived in a jungle :-D

I can believe it - if you closed your eyes you could be in the jungle :-D great.

when we first arrived in Melbourne in1975, several people told us that there were no song birds in Australia, they all just made "horrible" noises.


I used to walk to LaTrobe University early in the morning, along a road that, in those days, ran alongside fields and some woodland.

The "noises" were beautiful!



My favourite Aussie birds are the galahs :-)

no song birds? depends on what music you like :-D

They never heard a bellbird.

Melbourne and most of "down south" has squillions of sparrows, I think they hitched a ride on the first fleet.

No sparrows here in northern NSW, maybe it's too hot for them.

One Aussie tv personality was dumped, because he did a "crow call" on live tv. :-0

I didn't believe many Aussies after I was told that about birds :-)



The apartment complex where we lived had aprcot trees alongside the fence between our carpark and the house next door .................... this apartment building had been built on an ordinary sized house lot, and was the only one around, so we were surrounded by houses, with good-sized gardens.


We used to get all kinds of birds in the apricot trees at fruiting time, and in the surrounding gardens.

did you get any apricots?

:-)

I live on Pagham Harbour which is a feeding ground particularly for migrating waders.

I wondered why we bothered to go to Africa because, when we went down to the lagoon it was full of the same stuff I only needed to go down the road to see.

Wouldn't mind seeing a flock of wild cockatoos though.

LS ...............

yes we did get some!!

No-one else in the apartment block seemed to bother with them though .......... even though all 12 apartments were occupied by married students, grad students or other university people ............ some of them on pretty limited incomes!

I used to live in a flat, an old two-storey house converted to 4 flats.

A few fruit trees in the garden, including four plum trees. I picked some every morning to take to work for lunch & to share with colleagues (the trees were loaded, more than enough for all the tenants).

One morning, I went to get plums, and all four trees had no fruit. The woman in one flat didn't think anyone wanted any (what? she didn't ask anyone!).. and she made jam.... and she didn't give any of the other tenants any of it.

The rest of the time I lived there I made sure I got my share of the plums.

The butcherbirds came back yesterday afternoon.

We had a helluva storm! Thunder & lightning, and very heavy rain that turned into hailstones. The sub-tropical version of a white Christmas.

Poor little birds, sopping wet & bedraggled.

They shook themselves for a while........ then starting warbling. They stayed for well over an hour, it was wonderful to listen to them.

:-D

Lovely :-D

lovely :-D