What Anthony doesn’t say is that
before he gave me the THICK leather glove (belonging to Andrew Newbery) he gave
me a nice, pretty “K-mart special” gardening glove – 90%
cotton and not much leather. I was the bunny holding the butcherbird briefly
with this glove until it decided it was going to hold me. A thin cotton glove
is no match for the rather nasty hook on the end of beaks of all butcherbird’s,
therefore I ended up leaking a bit of blood before the change of gloves. This
really was nothing though compared to the nice piece of finger enjoyed by
Andrew’s Galah. As for the Kookabura your eardrums are more at risk than
your fingers – they make an awful din when you are handling them. Still
it could have been worse, it could have been a chough which have a piercing
scream…..
Mark
