Julie, the partner of a colleague here, mentioned the affinity parrots have for garden tomatoes. In our pot plants (ha! got you! Ozzie for container gardening!) on the deck, we have 3 nice cherry tomatoes plants amongst the herbs and yesterday we picked our first four little ripe tomatoes (and I ate one).Well, this morning, bright an early a pair of King Parrots were raiding the plants! Now we have seen a King here once - about 2 months ago. But these 2 were able to locate our little garden and chow through a half dozen or so green tomatoes--ripeness was not a factor for them!
So the question is - do we want tomatoes?
Or parrots!
Come and get 'em, boys and girls!
We also have a plethora of fine weeds in the yard. This have proven quite popular with the Pale Headed Rosellas and the Eastern Rosellas. Both have been highly entertaining stalking through our un-mowed flowery yard (the neighbors with their well-groomed suburban lawns love us!), selecting a particularly juicy one (or whatever they want in a weed!) and tramping it flat so they can get to the seed heads. So what do we want, a manicured lawn? Or Rosellas!
The pied butcherbirds have been bringing their youngsters to the bird baths we have strapped to
the railings; it's fun to see the moms splash about and show the babies how it's done. They also like to take a drink and then strop their beaks on the railings--it looks like they're sharpening them for the next kill. And it seems to coincide with their taking a look at Molly helplessly scoping them out from behind the sliding glass doors. They're almost bigger than Molly, and it seems they like to tease her.The noisy miners also often come in for a drink. Apparently urban birdbaths (http://www.wildlife.org.au/
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