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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 10/03/2009 : 09:47:00
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The butchies around here aren't normally very quiet even though we do throw the odd grub to them... they prefer to keep their distance.
This one came a bit closer than usual, didn't seem to mind us sitting on the deck.
First he landed in the frangipani tree
Spotted something near the cricket stumps
Got ya!!
Wait and see if anything else appears
Nothing else so went to sit in a nearby tree to soak up some sun while keeping a lookout
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 10/03/2009 : 09:54:15
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Plenty here too they have fantastic eye sight I love the way they catch things on the wing or just jump and pounce..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 10:01:49
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Nice looking birdie there Gail, looks a bit like a kookaburra, same family are they ??
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 11:55:02
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As far as I know they aren't related but they do resemble each other. Butchies do sing much better than kookaburras... not so hard on the ears  good imitators too, funny to listen to them doing other bird calls  You'd swear there was half a dozen different birds in a tree but only find one butchie instead
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 12:05:21
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cool stuff Gail 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 15:27:16
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| I remember seeing then during my time in oz,neat wee bird |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 15:52:24
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A fine specimen Gail looks like it gets plenty of grubs ,we only get the black Butcher Bird here.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Edited by - pitta on 11/03/2009 17:47:58 |
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Val
assistant gardener
Australia
92 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 18:54:09
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| Great photos, Gail. They do sing pretty, but I caught one sitting on my budgie's cage once. He was working out how to drag the budgie through the cage bars :( Wasn't all that worried that I was shouting and clapping my hands at him! |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 18:58:44
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 What the butcher bird wanted to eat your budgie
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 19:38:17
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i love them
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 20:01:18
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One of a butcherbirds favourite foods are baby birds. We used to get them hanging around the bird aviary. They are called butcherbirds as they hook a piece of meat onto a stick or in a fork of a tree to help them pull it apart.
Of the three different species of butchies, between Mary-Anne, Gwen and myself, we have them all. I have the Grey Butcherbird, Mary-Anne has the Pied, and Gwen has the Black one.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 10/03/2009 : 22:18:09
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Sorry Gail we have the Grey Butcherbirds too.
Bill:
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 05:59:40
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Sorry, I was getting mixed up as I knew someone had the pieds... it was me, knew I'd seen them somewhere  I'll blame getting old  Now I think of it, I can't remember too many greys around here, though will admit I haven't seen a pied here for a while, only the greys... wonder why??
The pieds were always very nervous, shy birds... they never would have come as close as the grey one did the other day. This one above was sitting right at the top of a very tall pine... about the closest they ever came. Very different to the greys we've had before at previous places that used to come down and sit beside us waiting for a handout.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 07:34:58
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Nice I have seen those down at Jacobs Well on the foreshore they were hanging around us when we were having lunch..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 07:58:52
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cool piccies ladies
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 13:00:46
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Thanks Cheryl we dont get as many pet type ones as we used too
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Butcher bird