Look who decided to visit yesterday afternoon...

[Bundiibird]

Pretty cockies.

I went down to Freo the other week, and I heard this racket, looked up and there were 2 rainbow lorikeets up there in a grapevine. When I see cockies or lorikeets or birds like that, I always wonder if they were pets who got loose, or genuinely wild.

It must be a little weird as a parrot owner to live in an area where parrots are native and have wild populations. I mean, here in the US (with few exceptions where theres feral populations) if you see a parrot, it's a lost pet or was released deliberately but cannot care for itself. Over there in AU, you have flocks of thousands of perfectly wild cockatoos and the lories and don't some areas also have eclectus? At least an escaped pet would have a fighting chance there though, could just join up with a wild flock, and I'm sure in time, would learn and revert to nature. Here, it's a sure death if the bird isn't found

I guess if that is what you grew up with then, it all seems normal. Some days I don't notice the screeching from the cockies as they fly over. But Bundii sure lets me know they are there. I used to see far more wild flocks when we lived in a remote town than I do here in a city. But I still see large flocks of white cockies, black cockies, galahs, corellas and lorikeets.

 

[Bundiibird]

Wow, I can only dream about seeing a sight like that out of my front window...how incredible that must be. I saw a couple of Magpies and some geese today, but that just does not have the same excitement factor

Terry, at the place where I work, there is the largest group of magpies I have seen. There has to be at least 30-40. I will try and get some pictures.

 

[Bundiibird]

Aww! It's my dream bird which costs a fortune here in US, and you have them flying wild! How unfair! LOL

I enjoy watching the wild birds from my porch, but the ones I see aren't nearly as fun and interesting as yours. I'm very jealous!

You guys might have to visit Oz to see them in the wild.

 

[strudel]

Crows aren't dirty.

oops, language alert.
"dirty great big" just means really big in Australian. I wasn't calling crows dirty, just describing the enormous specimen with whom my dog had a verbal altercation about the ownership of the lovely meaty bone she'd left there for herself and the crow liked the look of.

For sure crows serve a useful purpose, one of which is removing manky bits of meaty bone that your dog should have polished off the day before but instead has left lying about.

Cockies can be "pests". I saw a big group of dirty great big (really big ) cockies completely wreck the almond tree in the backyard of the place I was living. They just helped themselves to all of the green almonds, pulling all of them off, eating a hunk and dropping the rest on the ground. It took them no time at all. I don't know what the farmers need to do to keep them off.

I quite often see a couple/few pink and greys about rather than a bigger group. As I have one, I should really do some more reading about them and their behaviour in the wild. It might help me understand more about how she 'ticks'.

You guys might have to visit Oz to see them in the wild.

Parrot Forum's group tours down under

 

[Bundiibird]

You might be onto something there

 

[strudel]

You might be onto something there

How many spare bedrooms do you have?