Birds are beautiful creatures and they are also very smart. We’ve got budgies now in a big, roomy and underpopulated aviary. We used to have whistling canaries and we played music to them all the time. They mimick and emulate so easy and whistled some of my favourites. I loved them, but they’re such a precious bird, they seem to die from all sorts of things. They’re very easiliy frightened and do die of fright. Poor things.
We live in a very bushy suburb of Brisbane now and over the years we’ve encouraged the ‘bush birds’ with good bush bird food. Twice each day they turn up (you can set your watch by them), make the biggest racket you’ve ever heard and enjoy our offerings. It’s a welcome kaleidoscope of every bright colour in the spectrum, especially with the Bush parrots. They’re so beautiful. Hehe!! We’ve had the odd unplanned visit to the shower to wash our hair too.
We have all number of breeds call through the day, so there’s always the beautiful harmonic sound of birds in the background. They also socialise with our three dogs. They’ve all been taught it’s a hanging offence to chase. Bush parrots become tame quite easily, but we don’t encourage that.
We also have our resident magpie family and they are quite tame, not that we’ve taught them to be. They too are a very smart bird. Some years ago we had one that would actually follow us inside to the fridge. Haha!! Making sure he didn’t miss out.
Birds have adapted fairly well to the human incursion into they’re habitats, nonetheless we take a lot for granted and don’t pay nearly enough attention to dwindling numbers in some species. We really need to be much more mindful.
Enjoy them while they’re still around. They’re beautiful.
melina.
