on 03-10-2015 12:15 PM
This is a thread with no particular
Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂
So if anyone out there has something
To say about anything you like now
Is your chance
Keep it clean
And be nice
See how long that lasts
Can we keep politics and religion out
Of the conversation
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on 06-10-2015 10:56 PM
Yes it was fun
Wouldnt mind a bit of their energy
We went for a walk to the
Playground and were there
For about 2 min and the
5 year old slipped off the ladder
To the slipoery dip and hurt
Her bottom
Good job.she.fell on that and
Not anything else.
Anyway that was it she wanted
An ice pack so we had to go
Home. Shortly after she forgot
The pain , until she fell over about
An hour later and hurt her knee
she's such a chatterbox
And 5 going on twenty.
on 06-10-2015 11:03 PM
Mrs Bowerbird (picture courtesy of the internet, because she still gets shy, with me) dropped by again, today.
I know she's starting to feel at home, she's taking food from right under the beaks of the currawongs.
on 06-10-2015 11:15 PM
We dont have either of.those
Birds here.
Or many that you have in the
Eastern states.
Our birds are pretty.drab really
With the exception of many
Species of colorful parrots
Someone mentioned earlier
The black cockatoo
That's my favourite, but I donr
Think we have that one in SA
Either, maybe in the far north
on 06-10-2015 11:24 PM
When I was a kid my parents had a
Galah, it hated me
Apparently when I was a toddler I
Tried to hit it with a stick
Although I have no recollection of that
Whatsoever, the parrot never forgot
But I have been much kinder
As an adult to all creatures
on 07-10-2015 10:14 AM
Ecar, she looks a lot like a green catbird. The catbirds should be visiting my backyard here in the near future. Some of their delectable berries are starting to plump up.
I was just watching some of those noisy "alarm birds". There wasn't much happening around here yesterday with the heat. But today it's all go, go, go.
First of all, we have the "lady who doesn't want to wet her feathers". She flits about and dips here long nailed toes to the second joint. Then retreats to her shaded boudoir, where she fluffs about above the swimming pool.
Her teenage son, with a "watch me, watch me" attitude, flies in low, dipping his tail and splashes his little sister, who ventured into the smaller spa bird bath before bravely seeking equality in the big water.
Mother Hen's "friend" and "uncle" to the young 'uns, is trying to impress all with his dive bombing skills.
Unfortunately he appears to have a weight problem and sinks a little further than is normal. Oh well, that'll get rid of all the dried up sweat from yesterday. He is now showing off his underwings and deodorizing them in the salt air.
DEB
on 07-10-2015 12:27 PM
On the whole, the best I get is the sparrows bathing, though watching the currawongs drink is amusing. There were three on the birdbath, this morning, taking turns at dipping their beaks, 1-2-3, 1-2-3.... It reminded me of the old fashioned 'pecking chickens' toy, and got me thinking that I should make a drinking currawongs toy, just for amusement.
on 07-10-2015 01:26 PM
Isn't that a clever piece. I see it as upside down string puppetry. The birds head and neck protruding from an egg.
Could you consider the string being attached to the beak posing as a worm? Like a nature tug-o-war?
DEB
on 07-10-2015 01:30 PM
Illustrious combination of two like minds
What a brilliant idea Lloyds:)
on 07-10-2015 01:39 PM
I think I'd have to use a crank assembly to drive it, rather than rely on a weight, and gravity.
And I'd have to make the worms from wire to be sturdy enough to move the figures.
Oh wait, I already have.
An oldie, but a goodie.
on 07-10-2015 01:43 PM
There was an earlier version, and not a great photo, with just one chicken...