sandeyeMore rainy days.
August 22nd 2007 19:37
It is raining again, so not likely that I will be popping down to the harbor to hunt out a friendly pelican to photograph after dinner tonight. I am currently listening to the 'background' sounds, of pigeons cooing, along with the rain sloshing about as it falls onto, and then from, the roof.
Yesterday, one of the magpies came to visit. I was just peeping through the curtains in my room to see if the pigeons were ready for their evening seed meal, and spotted a black blob land... I rushed out with a lump of stale cheese I had at the ready in the fridge. The magpie must have been one of our tame ones, as it came right up and took the cheese from my fingers. (I usually try to hand feed them, in order to see if they are regular guests or strangers calling.) It ended up leaving the cheese - I think it was too stale even for magpie endurance. I threw it in the water bowl to soften it,and the pigeons ate it later on.
I suppose our fridge is as much a place for storage of bird food as human food, with our little plastic tub of cheese tit-bits and the bowl of meat and pastry scraps for visiting kookaburras, currawongs and such.
Yesterday, one of the magpies came to visit. I was just peeping through the curtains in my room to see if the pigeons were ready for their evening seed meal, and spotted a black blob land... I rushed out with a lump of stale cheese I had at the ready in the fridge. The magpie must have been one of our tame ones, as it came right up and took the cheese from my fingers. (I usually try to hand feed them, in order to see if they are regular guests or strangers calling.) It ended up leaving the cheese - I think it was too stale even for magpie endurance. I threw it in the water bowl to soften it,and the pigeons ate it later on.
I suppose our fridge is as much a place for storage of bird food as human food, with our little plastic tub of cheese tit-bits and the bowl of meat and pastry scraps for visiting kookaburras, currawongs and such.
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