Walking around the Bot Gardens this morning I was struck by the number of
Crimson Rosellas drinking from upright sprinkler heads. I have noticed this
occasionally in the past, and sometimes currawongs and ravens and yellow
robins doing the same thing, but today I saw Crimson Rosellas engaging in it
on six separate occasions. This might just mean that there are a lot more
Crimson Rosellas looking for water. Alternatively, as there are other
water sources about in the form of puddles etc is there something about
these sprinklers that makes them more attractive to the rosellas? eg are
they more comfortable or less vulnerable drinking perched than on the
ground. It does not seem to matter that the water-ooze might be very slight
or what part of the sprinkler head it is coming from - or that if there is
more than one bird only one can drink at a time. Surely it's not the
chlorine - or the fluoride. They don't even have teeth
Geoffrey Dabb
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