15 thoughts on “Lorikeets”

1. Great!

   Aussies are *so* lucky as far as the wildlife is concerned.
   Roos, koalas, goannas and lots of really colorful and *fun* birds (I *love* sulphur-crested cockatoos). North America has great animals too – I love the moose, squirrels and gophers there.

   New Zealand only has a few interesting birds – tuis, kiwis and keas. Quite boring in comparison. Oh well, at least we missed out on snakes too…..

   • I have to admit, Thor, that a lady kept on at me to go bushwalking in NZ once and with half an hour I was bored witless. Great scenery–magnificent–but the bush felt so empty. She was very offended when I said I’d seen enough.
     Every morning and afternoon we feed lorikeets, corellas, four butcher birds, noisy miners and a couple of magpies. The veranda looks like a madhouse sometimes.
     And we see very, very few snakes and almost no spiders.

     • pls send me a bunch of those feathers.

2. I have fond memories of feeding those rainbow buggers in Queensland.

   I got the food and mentally prepared myself to be gouged and gripped by thousands of tiny talons. The lady next to me didn’t demonstrate the same level of foresight. She panicked and of course the birds only grabbed on harder. Within a few seconds she became a whirling bird-nado.

   • And Wombat was all overcome with sympathy, of course…..

     • I was overcome with birds, actually. I wasn’t moving a muscle

       • Noisy little critters, aren’t they?

3. O/T: we’re going to Townsville on Wednesday. Looks like it could be an interesting drive, since the rivers and creeks will still be up.
   http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/warnings/sh2314.gif

4. We knew of a lady on the Ahwitu Pennisulla 40 years ago, in south-west Auckland whose grandparents
   bought lorriketes to NZ from Oz and bred them there.The local bush was full of them but they were deemed a pest and were pretty much wiped out , killing native birds ,very territorial parrots are.But as kids we loved to watch them , they were a beauty to spot flying in their groups.

   • I’d sooner have had the lorikeets than the NZ native birds, George. Far more interesting and colourful.

5. Better watch out,feed them too much and soon they will get lazy,start having chicks out of wedlock want free housing,cellphones,heathcare and the left will be signing them up to vote

   • Well, they’ll hardly be any more lo-info than the usual leftard voter…and certainly more charming.

     • Yep,they will be bird brained for sure,but at least they will have brains which would be an improvement

6. It looks you are gona have some rain down there. Ita is the name .But I believe Lorikeets like water.

   http://www.noodweercentrale.nl/de/wetter/profiwetter/niederschlag/ozeanien.html

   

   • Could get a bit damp, Robert but it’s unlikely to spread far West.

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