Noisy Miner

The birds love having a few short naps during the day.  We call them 'trancing' because they look like they have gone into a trance.  In this slideshow we catch Dimpy the pied-butcherbird go off into a trance with Renuthri his Noisy-miner friend and other noisy-miner cousins keeping watch around him.

Good old friends Maggie and Minnie have shared many adventures from the beginning.  Maggie always left some food for Minnie and Minnie would always fetch Maggie.  A true friend to the end, Minnie sat on the cage, encouraging Maggie to enter and let us help him, when he fell sick in his last days.

The pictures below are from the days of prolonged drought and show Maggie, Kerry (butcherbird) and Minnie walking, drinking and sharing their lives together.

Maggie Magpie and Minnie Noisy-miner are long time friends.  Here they enjoy a drink together.   Maggie's daughter Sparky ( two years old)  also want to join them while her juvenile sister Wendy waits her turn.

Did you know that baby birds of different species play games together?