Bird life

[Huon pine fan]

Yesterday I was down the coast working away in my workshop. It was a nice, warm sunny day so I had the sliding door open a metre or so. I heard a bird come in which happens from time to time. I looked around expecting to see a swallow or thrush shrike. I was amazed to see that it was a king parrot. It was perched on a stick of wood so I grabbed my phone and took a few snaps. It then started making a few noises which I interpreted as "what's to eat?".
I went over to the house, some 50 metres away and got some seed that I normally feed the crimson rosellas, bower birds, occasional king parrot, wrens, etc with. I was surprised that it was still waiting in the shed or me. I set down the seed and watched for about 5 minutes as it ate away.
As I had work to do, I turned my back and fired up the router. When finished the parrot was still there eating seed. Once it had enough it flew back out the door and away.
Amazing!

[rustynail]

See, life aint so bad after all. We used to have a fox come and sit outside the shed door listening to the hum of the planer. He'd sit there for about half an hour and then lie down, curl up and go to sleep. never had the heart to shoot him.

[Tonyz]

oh now your in trouble, firstly its a visit......... then its a what you got to eat............then its a can I stay a couple of night/days..then its your place is nicer than mine...than its Id like this roost moved over here, could you do that for me. then its 'yes dear anything you want dear....like a bullet

Say this thinking of John Clease Faulty Towers.

[chambezio]

Where we live has bush only a couple of hundred metres away. I have been putting out Wild Bird Seed for any of the birds that are around. We get King Parrots, Rozellas, Top Knot Pigeons, Doves, Magpies, Pee Wees, Happy Jacks (Apostle Birds) (these are my favourites) Wrens, White Cockees, Galars, and even a couple of Crows. I feel very privileged to have these all to visit They come down in "shifts" and usually one species at a time but the Pigeons, Doves and Happy Jacks will mix a bit together. I put out a 2 jam tins of seed daily. Some mornings the plough discs that hold the seed are picked clean which makes me think either Kangaroos or Deer come to clean up.

[chambezio]

I meant to add ......I have a family of Possums that like to shelter in the shed. Sub sequentially I made a couple of boxes from Pyneboard so they couple have a "hollow" to live in when they came to visit. I have an RSJ mounted under the apex of the shed roof with an endless chain attached for moving heavy stuff around. Well the RSJ made a good "runway" for the Possys to travel on and poop and pee on. On wet humid days the shed has quite an "organic smell".

As well as the Possys I have a pair of Swallows that make a nest high in another part of the shed every year. They make the mud nest and lay eggs but before they hatch some thing/some one knocks the nest down. I am suspecting it could be a bloody rat. I have some baits scattered around to get rid of the rats so I don't get a visit from a reptile that may end my shed days. (I hate snakes)