Village greeter

[martin butterfield <>]

Geoffrey

The dratted thing has flown too far South!  I just heard Mr K fly over our house calling all the while. The second record in three years for this area, and the first for my GBS site.  

Can I suggest you tell it to "go North and multiply" next time?

Martin

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

In Port Moresby there was a bird that was called by one group of people by a name that meant ‘village greeter’.  This, I learned, was a common and noisy bird known by  the English label of ‘Silver-crowned Friarbird’.  I was thinking of this today when roused by the clatter of flying peafowl on the roof and I looked out at the silver light of a cloudy Canberra morning.  The ringing call of another greeter sliced across the slumbering rooftops, this, of course, being the Narrabundah/Griffith Mr K.  It was calling from a small euc on Rocky Knob, and when disturbed winged away southwards.  It was back in 30 minutes.  I don’t know if it’s the same bird as last year but it certainly feeds in the same prunus tree, uses the same vantage points and squabbles with the same wattlebirds.

 

 

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