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50yearslate said
What’s your favorite type of bird?

I have a bit of a strange fascination with quetzals, but I like sandpipers best.  

Well of course there is the magnificent PENGUIN but I do like other birds too. I also think parrots are great and here in Australia we get parrots all year round, from the Galah which is a pretty pink and white parrot, the Eastern Rosella (extremely pretty, go look up a picture) and the Rainbow Lorikeet (ditto) but also the big parrots like the Sulphur-crested which makes a hell of a din on its own and when they get together even in small groups its ridiculously loud. I get them all here literally on my doorstep and many many other birds besides. The gums are flowering again and we get what we commonly call “grass parrots” but are several species of small mostly-green parrot who descend upon said gums in clouds screaming with joy at all the nectar, by which I mean constant screaming although not as loud as the big parrots, it is still noisy. But that’s not all oh no. There’s the kookaburras who sneak up to trees not 30 metres away (100 foot) in groups have a big noisy laugh at 6am and 6pm and then sneak off. They’re in my backyard and I never ever see one. 

But if I have to pick a current favourite (notwithstanding magnificent PENGUINS), its the black-chinned honeyeater. These little squawkers have beautiful blue eye-rings and lovely olive-green wings and they are utter opportunists. A few of us in the flats here feed magpies with scraps which tames them enough that when they are nesting they won’t swoop on us (just about the only thing that works with them) but a flock of these honeyeaters came to live last fall and they cottoned on to the bread rort and  have corrupted miners (another bird, not young humans) and even Rosellas and now the magpies are annoyed at them and fight with them except for a couple of the young magpies who roam the neighbourhood with a couple of miners and honeyeaters. It’s been a daily soap-opera to watch and has greatly entertained me and my cat who’s had the best Cat TV ever. I hope they stay!

edit: my favourite penguins are the Adelie and Little penguins. Both are small, persistently dotty and adorable, and don’t fear humans enough.

50yearslate said
So ewe like penguins 2? 

eye du!

About the Cat TV- does you kitty make those funny cackling noises at birds out the window? 

She generally doesn’t but I did catch her doing it one morning when the bird was really really close (a black-chinned honeyeater on my porch), it’s an odd sound. My previous cat, Macro, did it all the time and he went berserk one day when he saw a bluetongue lizard (look that one up, they’re really big fat lizards) crawling by, he was butting the window and gibbering. Noot also loves to see other cats outside, she’s almost as nutty about that as normal Cat TV.

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