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They look mad sydney!!
My son Phil went and saw the show, the noise would've given me a massive panic attack
I love the birds sydney, I built a bird feeder a few years ago when I lived in a van park, everyone had these beautiful parrots and what-not showing up daily on their feeders..... me?
I got an owl
You're lucky... I just got an old crow with 'tude. 
BTW, Sydney, those are great shots of the rosellas 
... we get them around our place as well, but they're not that tame or trusting yet to come so close to our windows. On the other hand, we feed the magpies here and they will jump up on the patio table when we go outside for a cuppa.... sometimes they will even stick their heads inside the house for a sticky beak
Here's a pic of one of our magpies about to hop onto the table....
Shaunna was using her old Fuji camera then and this is one of the better shots, but we will try to get some others with her new Sony Cybershot, of the cockatoos and rosellas as well.
Oh, and outside our place today, it got mowed and whipper snippered... ooooh my poor old bones be hurting now.
Owls are cool....had one the other night sitting on the clothes line....and a few frogmouth owls live in a tree on my walking track....
thanks starkers & tg... yeah...these ones are Rainbow Lorikeets..... they are more friendly than rosellas....if you're out on the deck...and holding food..will jump on your arms to feed....or sit on your head....
and if ignored...will come into the kitchen and sit on the side of a frypan...picking out any leftover goodies.....and I have 3 cats....well...down to 1 now...but at no time were they ever worried by them....mind you...cats were bought up with a tame cockatiel....so...didn't think anything of them wandering around....
however..... I draw the line.... this one watches the lorikeets...and thinks... what's good for the goose...is good for the gander...and tries to take over the kitchen....
Cool lil maggies starkers....... ........we used to have pretty tame magpies and kookaburras at a holiday house down the south coast when I was growing up....maggies would sit on the veranda steps and have morning tea with you....and sit on your bedroom windowsil and peck the glass to wake you up if you weren't up early enought for their brekky....their young were particularly fearless...one so much so...we called him Ned Kelly....lol
Thanks for the correction there... I'm not overly familiar with bird species/groupings so rosellas and lorikeets look the same to me. As for loikeets being more friendly/tame, I remember being at the Currumbin Bird sanctuary some years ago and having them all over my sister and I as we held trays of honeyed bread soaked in milk or something... don't have any pics of that myself anymore, but I'll see if my sister will scan and email them for me to post.
My ex brought home a cockatiel before doing the runner, and it refused to be in a cage so I built a perch from which it could fly around the house until it was covered with and old tablecloth at night. His name was spike and could say his name, imitate the phone and say a few other words... and his relationship with the old cat who was formerly pet head of the house was strange to say the least. Spike would often fly over and sit on Frog, who would lay there quite content as Spike nibbled gently at his ears and etc. Spike would also fly over at meal times and pinch bits of food off our plates... bits of carrot, mashed spud and peas, etc.
Sadly, both died of old age and I can not have pets where I'm renting, otherwise I'd love to have another cockatiel and let it be free to fly about the house like Spike did.
Yeah, I'll say they're fearless... our friendly maggies and their young come down while I'm mowing the lawn and peck for grubs right where I've just been... but then we've tried to build a trust between them by feeding and talking to them... pretty much giving them free reign around us and not startling them with sudden movements, etc.
Here is another magpie having a swim in the grandchildrens pool
I like magpies
Here, outside my house now, why my kid took a pic of the neighbour I'll never know, he's a jackass [The neighbour, that is]
Actually, I should get him to take a pic of the neighbour's roof, we call that place 'The Pizza Hut', if you saw the roof, you'd know why
Stinking hot, 44 degree's, and apparently the start of a heat wave
AHAHAHA, yes it snow's, just not where I'm at, but yeah, in heaps of places, we have a few decent ski resorts actually.. shame, I've never seen snow, and I WANT to
As for Paul Hogan, he has given us a bad name, I use to like him, but man, wtf is shrimp on the barbie?
we have prawns, and we don't BBQ 'em
bit over 111 F ....
coupla days ago....it was 95F in NSW...and snowing in Hobart...'bout 1 1/2 flight away....in Tasmania...same day...
TG... 
he was 'selling' Australia...to the septic tanks....and they use 'shrimp' terminology for prawns...gotta use their lingo...or they won't know what the hell we're on about!..
and...btw....they're not bad bbq'd.... 
...try 'em....
lol sydney, I hate seafood, BUT.. I can handle prawns sometimes, like prawn cocktails, but I think that's because I LOVE thousand Island dressing
Hogan, WHY did he get plastic surgery!?!
yeah....loses all the character in your face doesn't it.... 
...smacks to me of 'much younger wife syndrome'....
Yeah, that was pretty low of him, leaving his wife for Linda
He'd better be careful, he might end up looking like M/Jackson
Yeah, what a wanker... big time cop out and traitor cos he sold Oz out.
They can keep the bastard over there as far as I'm concerned. 
Still plenty of snow but at least I have 2 assistants to shovel the driveway for me 
Ah Tim...treasure this...I remember when my two assistants 'helped' me. I could never figure out why I ended up with more snow than there was in the driveway to start, and most of it on me.
BTW....she's a heartbreaker! What a killer smile!
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