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Hi all,
We have a resident
pair of grey currawongs about our house and paddocks. They are often heard
but only occasionally seen around the place, and that is mostly on overcast
days. However, today (a sunny day) one visited us and gave the
verandah pot plants and knicknacks the once over. We got excellent views
from 5m distant. 2 things of note were the size of its beak (it is much
longer that the pied currawong) and the way it used its beak. There were 2
plastic bags of garbage on the verandah and the GC used its closed beak to
puncture holes in the bags and them amasingly opened its beak to enlarge the
holes. It was a deliberate manoevre and it was repeated several
times. It also used the same technique when inspecting under a small gnarled
log.
Finally it tried to pull the wicks out of some
candles.
Graeme Clifton
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