Birdtalk
10-11-2012, 07:45 AM
#41
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
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Wow, how beautiful!!! The best kind of critter I've ever had come into my yard was a stinkin' possum. Sheesh.
My sister-in-law, who lives in central California, recently had a foreign exchange student from Austria stay with her for several months. One day the girl came running in to the room where my SIL was, excitedly demanding that she come see this beautiful bird. It was the most beautiful bird she had ever seen, she was very excited about it. My SIL went to see what she was raving about and discovered a common blue jay. It really hit home how often we take some things for granted.
My sister-in-law, who lives in central California, recently had a foreign exchange student from Austria stay with her for several months. One day the girl came running in to the room where my SIL was, excitedly demanding that she come see this beautiful bird. It was the most beautiful bird she had ever seen, she was very excited about it. My SIL went to see what she was raving about and discovered a common blue jay. It really hit home how often we take some things for granted.
10-11-2012, 11:29 AM
#42
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Northern California
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I love the bird pictures but would be scared to death of the snakes...but spiders are my very biggest fear. I'd pick up a non-poisen type of snake in a heartbeat before tackling a spider of any size. YIKES
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10-12-2012, 11:18 PM
#45
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Mernda, Victoria, Australia
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Originally Posted by beemerbird
Just this week alone, I've had: multitudes of wild rabbits; a wild hare; wallabies; an echidna; beautiful blue wrens; and several sulphur-crested cockatoos feeding on the ground very close to my house, all in daylight - here in Tasmania, down under Down Under.
Beautiful rosellas having their daily slice of apple at my friends' place in the Blue Mtns near Sydney:
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Beautiful rosellas having their daily slice of apple at my friends' place in the Blue Mtns near Sydney:
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10-13-2012, 03:19 AM
#47
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Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by Elfi2
Great shot!!! Love it!!! Thanks for sharing. We have those lorikeets all around the place too as I've got a lot of trees around with flowers they can get the nectar from. The birds are also a reason why we haven't got any cats, although I love cats but they wouldn't be good for the wildlife around. Do you have black cockatoos too??? The white ones love to have a party in my orange and mandarin trees.
10-13-2012, 03:24 AM
#48
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Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by moonwork42029
This is one of the brightest fellow we have visit in Possum Trot, KY 
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and they're plenty good at chasing away the outside cats.
Good thing we don't have parrots as we about go broke in the winter months feeding our feathered friends as it is.
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and they're plenty good at chasing away the outside cats.
Good thing we don't have parrots as we about go broke in the winter months feeding our feathered friends as it is.
