Submitted by Ron on 27 July, 2008 - 23:17
Each year we've been blessed with our friendship with Maggie and his family and friends, there has been a different emphasis. Nothing has been the same two years in a row. This year, making sure we don't lose contact with grey butcherbird Larry, his family and friends, has been the big challenge. Previously, he had the territory over the road, and the pied butcherbirds Butch and family had the territory behind our house. (The two species have a single territory map, and don't share land.) Although Butch and gang don't want Larry to come, the situation worked out okay.
Submitted by Ron on 9 July, 2008 - 22:01
Larry the grey butcherbird has been having trouble from the new pied butcherbird group just up the road. When everyone else had been fed and had gone away, I sneaked out into the yard to look for Larry and the other grey butcherbirds.
Submitted by Gitie on 5 May, 2008 - 14:58
One of my friends had some exciting news for me. 'Tell Gitie, what she says works', was the message her friend Ken had asked her to convey to me.
My friend told me that Ken has successfully made friends with a couple of galahs who had been visiting his garden. Then when a whole crowd of galahs started to wreck some one of his trees, he spoke to his galah friends and asked them to stop and they listened. Ken then explained to them that he didn't want their friends to destroy the tree either.
This bird is a special friend. From tip of the beak to the end of the tail the bird is no more than 11 cms long. Don't let this picture fool you, it has been magnified heaps.
