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Proper Gander said:
They are one of my favourites. We don’t seem to have any where I live which is a shame, but I used to meet lots in Canberra
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There are a handful that live in the wetlands near my place and find their way to my street from time to time. Mostly they tease me and fly away right as I get my camera out but managed to get a good couple of minutes with this one today.
 
Bluelegs said:
There are a handful that live in the wetlands near my place and find their way to my street from time to time. Mostly they tease me and fly away right as I get my camera out but managed to get a good couple of minutes with this one today.
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Yes they seem a bit more shy than other parrots.

We get to see some good birds here, but not all of them. Someone told me it is basically about the food source. Inner suburbs established a long time ago did so with a mental template of making them look European, which included planting overseas flora. Some of our Australian birds thought that was tops (presumably your fusion food enthusiasts) but others have their preferred food source in the Australian native areas. Made enough sense for me to believe it, but it’s a shame the eastern rosellas haven’t acquired a taste for pomegranate as yet.
 
In the theme of “PG’s pomegranate tree” I’ve got another terrible photo to show.

I have a fair bit of love for the more boring birds which don’t get much attention because there are lots of them around. But I’m not a supermodel so it seems unfair to judge birds on that basis.

Where I live there are lots of Noisy Miners. They like my birdbath (as do wasps). It’s weird that I lived three suburbs away a few years back and never saw any of them.

Anyway I tried to take a picture of him just now but he flew off. But I still quite like the photo, however crap, with his wings all stretched into individual feathers and his pointy honey-eater beak.

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I really do need to get a proper camera and lens soon
 

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jhong said:
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I love it though. Those guys are the best.

I often think of colonial settlers and what they must have thought of the sound of birds once in Australia. It’s so so different to where they were coming from.
 
Proper Gander said:
I love it though. Those guys are the best.

I often think of colonial settlers and what they must have thought of the sound of birds once in Australia. It’s so so different to where they were coming from.
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I love watching older movies that take place in a jungle setting. They will invariably have a kookaburra sound effect as part of the audio mix despite being set in South America or something.
 
Bluelegs said:
I love watching older movies that take place in a jungle setting. They will invariably have a kookaburra sound effect as part of the audio mix despite being set in South America or something.
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I saw a doco about the history of the bigger film companies. Movie making being so very high risk high reward that there tended to be multiples of much the same plot produced simultaneously at the lowest cost possible and to that end the studios shared lots of equipment, props etc from sets and canned background sounds. They actually showed a bunch of clips from films all using the same one and, sure enough, that kookaburra showed up in all the jungle sound clips. It’s a beauty of a track - you’ve got your monkeys, your kookaburras and something that seems like a leopard growling against a random insect buzzing with occasional frog.
 
Proper Gander said:
Yes they seem a bit more shy than other parrots.

We get to see some good birds here, but not all of them. Someone told me it is basically about the food source. Inner suburbs established a long time ago did so with a mental template of making them look European, which included planting overseas flora. Some of our Australian birds thought that was tops (presumably your fusion food enthusiasts) but others have their preferred food source in the Australian native areas. Made enough sense for me to believe it, but it’s a shame the eastern rosellas haven’t acquired a taste for pomegranate as yet.
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I forgot to respond to this but it has been pretty eye opening since moving to a newer estate that emphasised Australian flora. Much more diverse birdlife than I'd ever seen living in the leafy eastern suburb of Melbourne in my youth. That being said with the powerlines underground seeing a possum is a rarity although maybe that's for the best.
 
Bluelegs said:
I forgot to respond to this but it has been pretty eye opening since moving to a newer estate that emphasised Australian flora. Much more diverse birdlife than I'd ever seen living in the leafy eastern suburb of Melbourne in my youth. That being said with the powerlines underground seeing a possum is a rarity although maybe that's for the best.
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Oh they are around. They have basically moved in with me. I’ll get some photos but I should probably only post them in the Ringtail thread
 

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If only I knew that this thread was not about birds but photos that you’ve taken of birds. I’m always taking photos of birds.

Will check my photo library and see if there’s any worth posting.
 

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