Byrds fly high.
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Sticking with bird theme, nice n mellow tribute to Janice ....

^^ nice byrds & nice grateful bird
...tiny bird ;)

Half man half bird.
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- full metal bird

...wire bird ;)

Time to take it up a notch and branch out.
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^^ nice @AW, I used to sing that song (badly ) to my kids

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/22/magic-moment-sydn…

tubeshooter wrote:

Time to take it up a notch and branch out.

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My daughter was into that... Haha

GuySmiley wrote:

^^ nice @AW, I used to sing that song (badly ) to my kids

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/22/magic-moment-sydn…

GuySmiley. Hi mate hope you’re doing ok.

Only reason I thought of it was, I had it sung to me as a young whipper snapper.

The brain is ‘some’ kind of a storage device . AW

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=9a56963d0daaccd0&hl…

^^ that’s a lovely memory @AW, did you’re parents / grandparents ever call them Jackies? My grandfather called them that, the one that got around Essendon up to the late 40s on a horse

... anutha branch out ;)

GuySmiley wrote:

^^ that’s a lovely memory @AW, did you’re parents / grandparents ever call them Jackies? My grandfather called them that, the one that got around Essendon up to the mid 50’s on a horse

GuySmiley. Yes mate, they did. They were colloquially called Jackie’s for awhile.

Birds common names have often changed through periods of time, not their true common names but regional names.

For example. Crested Pigeons here in Victoria in the south are so called, but over the border in say the Tocumwal Berrigan area, locals call them Topknot Pigeons which they truly are not, entirely different bird all together.

Sometimes colloquially incorrect names are applied and it goes too far past a point of no return. I /we beg to differ.
I’ve had plenty of Barney’s with truck drivers when they spot me with binoculars and I say Crested Pigeons, they forcefully and vehemently reply Topknots mate, Topknots. AW

For those not so good on the ear.

Here’s one for the eyes.

Seminal, back in its day. AW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull

DJT

@AW @JF, Lyrebirds are great mimics. Cloudhill nursery and gardens up in Olinda have great chainsaw, car horn, baby crying mimicking lyrebirds

GuySmiley wrote:

@AW @JF, Lyrebirds are great mimics. Cloudhill nursery and gardens up in Olinda have great chainsaw, car horn, baby crying mimicking lyrebirds

GuySmiley. You’ve gotta love Lyrebirds, as stated by DAtt. The world’s greatest mimic. It’s all about sexual selection, nothing else.

We use to have friends in Powelltown. It was on every day up there. AW

^^ indeed you do, we stayed in a small cottage deep in the rainforest up in the Kangaroo Valley and one lived under the floor, started up before dawn every morning sending the loudest whips across the valley to an equally determined co conspirator :/

;)

2 min mark

My favorite bird is the humble magpie. So intelligent.
Went to the birds of prey show on K.I. a few years back and a maggie would swoop in everyday and steal the show by picking up rubbish and putting it in the bin to the amusement of the crowd. He made the eagles and owls look stupid and the ranger had no choice but to make him part of the show.
We have a pair in our backyard who seem to enjoy our company, and we have to stop them from walking inside. They sit on the balcony warbling and tap on the glass to get our attention. They had a baby last year and it had a broken beak and had trouble eating, so we fed it until the parents chased it away to find its own territory. Now and then it would come back for a feed but if the parents came along it would shit itself and cower under a bush until they went.
There is also about a dozen down on the beach here who think they are seagulls and scavenge for scraps.

old-dog wrote:

My favorite bird is the humble magpie. So intelligent.

Went to the birds of prey show on K.I. a few years back and a maggie would swoop in everyday and steal the show by picking up rubbish and putting it in the bin to the amusement of the crowd. He made the eagles and owls look stupid and the ranger had no choice but to make him part of the show.

We have a pair in our backyard who seem to enjoy our company, and we have to stop them from walking inside. They sit on the balcony warbling and tap on the glass to get our attention. They had a baby last year and it had a broken beak and had trouble eating, so we fed it until the parents chased it away to find its own territory. Now and then it would come back for a feed but if the parents came along it would shit itself and cower under a bush until they went.

There is also about a dozen down on the beach here who think they are seagulls and scavenge for scraps.

Old-Dog. Hi mate.

Yep, hard to go past a magpie as everyone’s favourite, they are like family as you rightly stated.
They are funny, clever and intelligent, caring of their kin, decent mimicry also, just full on and around people a lot of the time.
Recently voted Australia’s most loved bird. AW

Hi AW, Just a crying shame they are the mascot for Collingwood and Port Adelaide, the two most hated teams in the AFL.

Swooping Season Soon.
Pays to get onside with the locals with the odd treat.
Sure, it's a bit of a Protection Racket but what can you do?

Peggy and Molly Facebook

and my Mr Einstein :)

My locals never swoop me, on a yearly daily retainer

There’s a couple studies showing that magpies that swoop have either been harassed or had their nest tree harassed by people and people are then considered a threat. Most magpies don’t swoop.

Incredible this is not getting more coverage in surf media.
Bloke has probably done more than most for protecting our oceans.
You can sign petition in attached link.

https://www.paulwatsonfoundation.org/freepaulwatson/?gad_source=1&gclid…

Well worth supporting andy-nac. Thanks for sharing.
Back to the birds
Too many birds in one tree, particularly the noisy feckin miners squalling from pre dawn to post sunset.
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old-dog wrote:

Hi AW, Just a crying shame they are the mascot for Collingwood and Port Adelaide, the two most hated teams in the AFL.

Old-dog. Hi mate. I love magpies, especially when I move across Australia on bird surveys, tabulating the different colour variations and even the cross overs where birds from one region are found at the interface with birds of another region.

And………., I’m a Collingwood supporter, it was meant to be.

Getting a wave of late, just interested. All the best. AW

AlfredWallace wrote:

old-dog wrote:

Hi AW, Just a crying shame they are the mascot for Collingwood and Port Adelaide, the two most hated teams in the AFL.

Old-dog. Hi mate. I love magpies, especially when I move across Australia on bird surveys, tabulating the different colour variations and even the cross overs where birds from one region are found at the interface with birds of another region.

And………., I’m a Collingwood supporter, it was meant to be.

Getting a wave of late, just interested. All the best. AW

@AlfredWallace I'm still hurting from the 1990 Grandfinal,
That aside, looks like your Pies are gonna finish the season on a high and send Nick Daicos to a well deserved Charlie.
Just out of curiosity, favourite pie of all time? And not the other pie thread. That got outta hand!
Personally, i was always a Peter Daicos fan.

Peter McKenna went alright.

russell ebert or timmy evans.
according to the signatures in my footy budget, anyway.

Yeah the great McKenna. Theres a name for folklore in goalkicking @blackers.
haha @basesix...i see what you did there. SA Great!

well.. 'heaps good'... we love a red hot go : )

Worked with members of the Elbert clan. Nice peeps.

Had a cat called Timmy too so go figure.

basesix wrote:

well.. 'heaps good'... we love a red hot go : )

hehe. Exactly!

blackers wrote:

Peter McKenna went alright.

As a very young kid my dad pointed McKenna out playing for the local YCW seniors taking a speckie during a game on the Nth Heidelberg oval across the road from our house. McKenna got introduced to Collingwood the next season by the local parish priest (Fr Mogg)** and the rest his history. Of course McKenna was only as good as the Collingwood rovers delivering the ball to his chest, another brilliant fat arsed full forward of the time

** links between Collingwood and the Catholic Church go back to Maddox and Wren

Okay Guy, Des Tuddenham. PIe or Bomber? Yes McKenna was a fat arse but that was the era. Slow and violent.

Comedy at the G at the moment.
Melbourne being put through the AFL version of chinese torture.
I always associated Tuddenham with Collingwood @blackers.

Never a bomber in my mind

southernraw wrote:

AlfredWallace wrote:

old-dog wrote:

Hi AW, Just a crying shame they are the mascot for Collingwood and Port Adelaide, the two most hated teams in the AFL.

Old-dog. Hi mate. I love magpies, especially when I move across Australia on bird surveys, tabulating the different colour variations and even the cross overs where birds from one region are found at the interface with birds of another region.

And………., I’m a Collingwood supporter, it was meant to be.

Getting a wave of late, just interested. All the best. AW

@AlfredWallace I'm still hurting from the 1990 Grandfinal,

That aside, looks like your Pies are gonna finish the season on a high and send Nick Daicos to a well deserved Charlie.

Just out of curiosity, favourite pie of all time? And not the other pie thread. That got outta hand!

Personally, i was always a Peter Daicos fan.

Southernraw. Hi fella. Favourite pie for me would be Peter Daicos.

He kicked just shy of 100 goals in most years, skill personified, you can see why his boys have such tremendous skill.

Peter McKenna , for me, is still the best kick in the VFL/AFL eras, he’s technique was flawless. Cruelled by knee injuries, of which in today’s game are totally repairable. AW

GuySmiley wrote:

Never a bomber in my mind

I’ve dealt with heaps of VFL/AFL players over my time.

Des Tuddenham tried to stitch me up once in a big commercial landscape project, fortunately I was the wiser of group.
I’ve worked with Rene Kink, Bowden from Richmond, Stoneham from Essendon, Van der Haar, Ted Whitten senior and Ted Whitten junior.
In 2019 Dustin Martin called me late in the year for an urgent job to perform a huge turfed area at his Kew home, I knocked him back, he was very polite and a very nice guy to converse with. Most of them were not like him.
I found most of them to be very tight fisted. AW

Cheers boys, I came to Vic in 72 and think he was a Bomber at that stage, son5hats what I associate with him.. As for the lightening farce, it extends both club’s seasons for half an hour. Couldn’t happen to 2 better teams, cept perhaps Carlton.