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Knowing you are Down Under (if you're the same David H-S that posts on
t.o., anyway), let me say that I got rather jaded by our cardinals and
blue jays here in NY. After all, my mom was a birder, had feeders in
the yard, cared for injured birds and small mammals (really bad ones
we sent to the amazing Bird Lady who lived near us- see
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and had Jays eating off our hands before we were 10 years old. It
wasn't until I traveled to Oz and NZ for an ornithology conference,
when Southern Hemisphere types pointed out to me how really pretty and
colorful they are (in a wistful, sort of "Wish I had them on my Life
List" tone of voice) that I could really appreciate them again. They
ARE pretty.

Chris

 

Chris wrote:

Yes I live in the land of parrots as Attenborough puts it.

let me say that I got rather jaded by our cardinals and

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Every day this week I have seen from the house eastern and crimson rosellas
and galahs eating grass seeds from the pasture that isn't mowed in winter.
These are a riot of colour contrasting with the more formal pied
butcherbirds and kookaburras that sit eye-balling the same grass from the
power pole and the naked fruit trees.

David

 




    Can't distinguish shadow from black pigmentation, but it closely
resembles a male Northern Cardinal, to my old eyes. It's a fairly
commonplace non-migratory North American specie found east of the plains
states from Southern Canada southward well into eastern Mexico. I feed
them year-'round down here in Florida. They share an outdoor feeder with
my house-yard cats and take the occasional garden tax, which I certainly
don't begrudge them.

    Well, there seems a pretty good chance that God had little to do
with European starlings and Cedar waxwings ;-)
--
Derald

 


It is amazing and wonderful to see the working elements of evolution :)
--
Enjoy Life... Dan L

 

yes, those little dinosaurs that save us from insects and are pretty to boot.  

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Somewhere between zone 5 and 6 tucked along the shore of Lake Michigan
on the council grounds of the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago