@Adge Amazing that I hadn't tweaked that you are a bird lover with your profile picture - but I just assumed you liked the picture! You are in Western Australia? Are birds just an interest or are you involved in them in your occupation? I don't know anything about birds myself. We take so much for granted in our every day life. I do, anyway. @Dec has got me on the verge of buying binoculars to take up an interest in astronomy. I have long had a niggling interest every time I have seen a telescope and thought I would love to have one. It must be fascinating. I have never seen through a telescope but @Dec has a considerable knowledge base on astronomy and says that she doesn't have one and that binoculars are enough. So when the shops open again, I'll get a pair and embark on a journey of discovery. And now I will be paying more interest to the birds around me when I am out on my daily walks.
I saw an incredible mess on the footpath when I was out for my walk recently and looked up to see two black parrots with a red crown 'spike' - pardon my terminology - which were pulling off small branches, stripping them of their seeds and dropping the leafy twigs on the footpath. It looked like there had been a storm. I was wishing I had my camera. They were beautiful birds. A pair.
And those pigeons with the noisy flight sound are about here too. And the magpie's song is quite beautiful, isn't it? I always love to hear it.
