Letter to a friend...
Hi Jan,
At Goolwa Bakery yesterday, a couple of magpies strutted up and requested their share of our lunch. I broke off a bit of meaty pastry and suggested to Wendy that she try for a photo. Maggie was a bit impatient and jumped up on my knee and took the treat! After that, the two of them stood in front of us and serenaded us at length!
Tonight, at Nino's in Victor, a Wattle Bird sashayed across the next table, and then cool as you like, skipped onto ours and started cleaning up one of our plates--the table is a bare two feet wide! At least we were eating outside; they have a Murray magpie they have to keep shooing out of the shop! We saw it walk in like it owns the place! The waiter shooed it away, arms akimbo, and it ducked around behind her and kept heading into the shop!
Across the water from where we are staying, behind a bit of shrubbery, someone puts out some sort of food that the gulls like. There's a few of the light-weight Silver Gulls have a go, but they seem mostly to get seen off by the Pacific Gulls. There was a huge commotion a couple of mornings ago; Pacific Gulls honk louder than a quarrel of bin chickens!
What's really amusing is that, every few minutes, a gull flies down the middle of the canal (Encounter Lakes) in case some dopey fish is too close to the surface, but they all do a quick detour over that one lawn each time they come past!
(Andrea Nov 2024)
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