Birds in the gloom
Jul. 14th, 2005 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringIt's a rather grey old winter day in Canberra. Has been for a while, and it's been grand to get the rain.
Last night DS came running in, saying there was an owl sitting on the clothesline. Hard to see in the dark, but he was right, more or less. Not an owl, but a tawny frogmouth, which feeds on small animals. Like frogs, I guess. Or at night in our back yard, mice eating the food scraps in the compost pile. During the day he would pretend to be part of an old dead tree and you could pass within a metre of him and not spot him.
Second is a couple of parrots from my bird feeder. Winter is a thin time for parrots, and they hunt out sources of food. They come in from the mountains for the comparitively rich pickings in Canberra and sometimes they don't go home again in the summer. Hence the great flocks of sulphur-crested cockatoos.
Last night DS came running in, saying there was an owl sitting on the clothesline. Hard to see in the dark, but he was right, more or less. Not an owl, but a tawny frogmouth, which feeds on small animals. Like frogs, I guess. Or at night in our back yard, mice eating the food scraps in the compost pile. During the day he would pretend to be part of an old dead tree and you could pass within a metre of him and not spot him.
Second is a couple of parrots from my bird feeder. Winter is a thin time for parrots, and they hunt out sources of food. They come in from the mountains for the comparitively rich pickings in Canberra and sometimes they don't go home again in the summer. Hence the great flocks of sulphur-crested cockatoos.
