Hello all 🙂  I did have some memories to share, but damn it, I have forgotten them... :^O  A senior's moment indeed.   Sorry terra, will come back if they return to me.   Anyone remember patent leather shoes?

I remember having a pair of black patent leather shoes when I was about 12 years old.  I remember having to clean them with vasoline to keep them shiney. 

Oh I'd forgotten that moon.

I have been wondering why my spinach leaves in the garden have holes in them... thought it was slugs but no sign of them as I keep up a slow supply of safe pellets, but today I discovered why it was so...

Sparrows have a fixation on my spinach and sit on the leaves tearing them and gobbling them down... the little monkeys :^O

Darki,, you are so lucky having sparrows.  They have literally disappeared from the cities, driven out by those awful Indian Myna birds......Twenty years ago I used to have dozens visit me on the northern beaches...I haven't laid eyes on one for many years.  I remember just one lone one flew onto my balcony....I felt so sorry for the wee thing.  

night lovely peoples ♥

Evening gerries--just lost a post.

Took half an hour to work out it wasnt

going to post--gggrr.

Good onya Gilly-the only poster on the threads

who hits the cot earlier than me.

--My regards to you all..........nite.....................Richo.

Oooh yes I remember patent leather shoes.  I had a pair in the early/mid 60s when I was still a teenager.  The toes were p-o-i-n-t-y even by todays standards and the heels so thin that my mother refused to let me in the front door until the shoes came off.

She never missed an opportunity to tell anyone who would listen about the holes my heels made in her precious kitchen lino.:O:^O

... and the did make holes lindal :^O

Freshie, I actually have a potplant that is full of weeds that have seeds on them. I haven't weeded it because the sparrows almost roll in it in their delight to have found so many seeds in the one place.

I have to say too, that they are all nesting under my eaves behind the facia boards and my verandah is very speckeled with white droppings.

Under the verandah floor boards and deep within the bushes I have blue wrens who are nesting also and the garage has its usual supply of Welcome swallows...

The air is full of the sound of birds and fledglings at present.  I also have finches and thrushes, willy wag tails and blackbirds, along with bigger birds like plovers and ravens, white cockatoos and sometimes the yellow tailed black cockatoos that arrive just before rain.

Kookaburras do sentry duty along the bush line sitting for hours on a branch waiting for some passing tidbit.

Then there are the eagles and hawks that fly high up and soar over the place looking for the odd snack.

There are any number of other birds like the wattle birds and others I don't know the names of.  It's a passing parade 🙂

When i first moved to Canberra our yard was full of the native birds.

Over time the Indian Myna birds took over.

About 6 years ago a group of people started to trap the Myna birds with great success now we have the native birds coming back in the areas that the traps are being used.  The local group have been hiring and selling the traps.  They have been so successful that the traps are now being made at the local gaol.

Remember remember the 5th of November.

Who remembers the 5th of November ??

I have very happy memories of the 5th.

Oh Darki.....heaven on a stick.

I do so love birds....once you understand them you realise what magical creatures they are.