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21st November 2013, 02:19 PM
#11
Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder

Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
We have some in our garden,
We have 28 varieties of birds during the year, The antics of them are quite funny, A lot like humans sometimes.
I have to feed them every morning with a big bowl of anything. they eat anything you put out, Even a Curry I didnt like I have put out and that has soon gone.
Cheers
Brian
Brian, That doesn't surprise me in your case, If you had kept it in your kecks at sea you wouldn't have 28 birds to feed. I am definitely getting my bird one. Get her away from me when i am eating give my bloody listeners a rest. Terry.
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21st November 2013, 02:39 PM
#12
Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder
Vernon. those sulphur crested cockatoos make terrific pets and love to cuddle into your neck . love to Irene
Last edited by alf corbyn; 21st November 2013 at 02:43 PM.

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21st November 2013, 02:52 PM
#13
Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder
ALF, M8, Sulphur Crested Cockertoos. I thought they were a Country and Western band.
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21st November 2013, 06:18 PM
#14
Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder

Originally Posted by
alf corbyn
Vernon. those sulphur crested cockatoos make terrific pets and love to cuddle into your neck . love to Irene
Hi Alf yes nice Pets mate but can be Bleedin noisy too,their screech is really deafening at times here,especially when an entire Flock are perched in the Gun trees ! Take Care Vernon
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21st November 2013, 07:24 PM
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Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder
I once knew a young lady in Sydney who liked the odd cockatoo.
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I had one on the Euryades for six months when I was in the Spice Islands, Charlie Kakatoa.
He was a good talker, speak English, Javanese and a little Spanish.
He was also a Plonky, loved the Javanese Brandy had a tin at the end of his perch full of it, get legless and fall off on to the deck, clutching his head with one claw, saying Teda Bagoose.
Ashore in Tanjong he would walk along the bar drinking out of everyones glass and then fall of the end and hit the deck. He was always drunk.
I could not afford to take him home and keep him in liquor so I swapped him in Padang in a bar for a bottle of plonk,
He just said one word. "berstered", and a tear rolled down one cheek. I felt like Judas.
Brian
me and Charlie Kakatoa and the crowd with some of their parrots. [ We all wore sarongs in those days in Blu Flu,
the photos were on a Sunday as we had our best ones on, we had one for working in , one for sleeping in and one for going ashore in. It was pure Paradise that trip.
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21st November 2013, 07:41 PM
#16
Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder
Different kind of Kilts there haha! Nice one Capt! Cheers
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22nd November 2013, 12:16 AM
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Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder
Are you taking orders for one Doc???
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22nd November 2013, 01:27 AM
#18
Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder
#15, 2nd photograph, Capt' Kong, The chap on the left, his sarong is rather short! A tad vunerable I would have thought.
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22nd November 2013, 02:05 AM
#19
Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder

Originally Posted by
Charles Louis Barron
Are you taking orders for one Doc???
How many can I set aside for you Lou,at $1 each haha! Cheers
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22nd November 2013, 03:55 AM
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Re: My Newly Built Bird Feeder
Hi Vernon.
I made a mistake down here I screwed a plastic dish in my big Japanese maple tree, every night I filled it with seed for the Major Michel's and cockies, I used a little chair to climb up to tip the seed in until one day I slipped and raked the inside of my leg down the side of the chair, three big lumps and big bruises
I still have one of the lumps six months later. I think the neighbors were glad I slipped on the chair as the noise in the morning was terrible, the cockies I mean not me screaming in pain.
But your bird feed box is a work of art.
Cheers Des ps my daughter got on here somehow!!!!!!
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Last edited by Des Taff Jenkins; 22nd November 2013 at 03:56 AM.
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