It found this bird beautiful and engaging. Once at home, checking out its English name, I was smitten: an eclectus snapped by eklastic.
Monday Portrait
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Tag: parrot
Cat Call, Wolf Whistle, Parrot Screetch
I went for a walk and I heard a wolf whistle. Now I’m past the age that I am at the receiving end of wolf whistles (I’ve never been on the giving end, to be sure) but I looked around. I couldn’t see anybody and kept walking. Again I heard a whistle … It took me a while to locate the whistler. I looked up and there it was:
It was a macaw who was taking the mickey out of me!
I know that smaller parrots have made themselves comfortable in our area, mainly the rose-ringed parakeet. But mawcaws?
I documented my sighting (rather, it sighting me) on a local facebook group and immediately got the feedback that this bird is a pet who likes to take long flights but always returns to its human.
I’m a Fan of Parrots
There’s something strange in my neighborhood!
I think I’m seeing things. That bird on the roof is huge! But it’s not a hawk, not a rook … it’s red and blue and possibly green! Luckily, I have a zoom lens.
I posted the pics on a local facebook site and it turns out that this parrot is known in the neighbourhood. He regularly flies his rounds and squawks at people from the roofs and then returns home.
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