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Silvereyes are partial to oranges

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Subject: Silvereyes are partial to oranges
From: "John Layton" <>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:29:16 +1000
We don't feed the birds much these days. Used to grow sunflowers and put out the seeds which attracted rosellas and galahs until the sulphur-crested cockies moved in and made a darned nuisance of themselves. Recently we saw a picture in a US magazine of birds feeding on a skinned orange so, on Sunday morning, we put out an orange. Fifteen minutes later we had groups of up to seven Silvereyes at a time partaking a hit of Vitamin C.
 
By afternoon the orange was pretty well depleted and we noticed the remnants were attracting numbers of tiny dark wasps. Kept an eye out for European Wasps, but thankfully they didn't eventuate. Put out another orange on Monday and again crowds of Silvereyes followed by the little wasps. Alas, the Tuesday morning orange was promptly pinched by plurry, purloining piebald currawongs. Wednesday's orange suffered the same swift fate. Thus ends our orange-feeding experiment.
 
John K. Layton
 
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