the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

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 

[ecar3483]

You'd think they would have left me the keys... ha ha.

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[ecar3483]

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[ecar3483]

Daylight saving...

The Sun rises and sets at the usual times, but now they play the midday news on the wireless at the wrong time... ha ha.

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[kopenhagen5]

[tasfleur]

Good morning .. daylight saving ... ... "blerk"

How I would love to have white cockatoos in the trees here, but we're settling for the black ones today;  about a dozen of them are across the road in a tall tree shouting loudly to each other and the neighbourhood, it's just a wonderful thing to see and hear.

Meanwhile, our Waratah tree has burst into flower and oh how beautiful it is so of course, I took a close up of one earlier this morning .. here 'tis.

The bottle brush hasn't quite reached that stage yet, but it won't be long.  I love this time of year but not looking forward to the heat of the summer which thankfully doesn't last long this far south anyway so I shouldn't complain given how terrible it can be on the mainland with all the fires and drought.

Have a great Sunday everyone ... 

[marwi_3023]

I like black cockatoos just as much as white maybe more as you only see them for part of the year and in very low numbers

[ecar3483]

That waratah's beautiful, Tas. 🙂

There's a flock of black cockatoos "over that way" (waves arm vaguely, in no particular direction), ha ha.

I hear them, sometimes, but I'm yet to see them...

The collected internet consensus of opinion seems to be that they come before the rain, after the rain, when it's raining, when it's not raining, when it''d be good if it did rain and when it'd be a shame if it rained because that would ruin the barbie... ha ha.

By all accounts they seem a fascinating bird, it'd be interesting to meet them, put to rest a few of the odder "myths" associated with them.

If nothing else, recounting the tales, tall and true, to them would be good for a laugh, ha ha.

"Over that way" is a little bit like "Just up the street, a bit" - it could be a five minute drive, or you might want to take a packed lunch and tell someone where you're going, ha ha.

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[marwi_3023]

I know that they come at relatively the same time every year and then leave correspondingly.
I see less now actually staying in the area because the farmers are cutting all the Radiata pine trees down.
These are yellow tail black cockatoos that frequent.
I don't know what native species they would have eaten back before farming.
They like the seeds of the Radiata pine here and you either see them flying or at the very top of the tree eating.
I love their call

[ecar3483]

There's an old man bird who's been an evening regular for while, now.

He trots across the pergola roof to the hole in it, climbs down onto the bridge below and then trots all the way along the bridge to "His" platform...

"I will have my food here, and I will be happy"... believe me, he will walk over perfectly good food to get there...

He has "His" spot, and that's that... ha ha.

He's been away the last couple of days, with the rain...

He turned up today and he's been in the wars...

His lower left eyelid is a bit swollen and he tends to squint as though he's in pain, but then he'll open his eye as if everything's fine... ha ha.

We had some fun as I bobbed from one side to the other, comparing his eyes as he sat facing me, obligingly... ha ha.

He looks okay... He's taken a knock, but he's in remarkably good spirits.

Feisty might be the best word for it... the way he snarled and snapped at the younger bird who took a little too close an interest in "His" food lends me to think that he'll be okay, ha ha.

There's always going to be that moral dilemma, especially with the older birds - if they come in injured do I coax them into a box for what might be, in all likelihood, a one way trip to the vet's or do I let them live out their days?

What's worse? To kill a friend quickly... or slowly...?

If only it was that simple a decision...

If only there was a guide book, a manual, some impartial all knowing source of wisdom to turn to...

But there isn't.

In the end, all that is left is the judgement of a simple man, upon whose conscience lies the most difficult of decisions.

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[marwi_3023]

I'm sure that whatever you did it would be in the best interests of your friends