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Blue-winged Parrot

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Subject: Blue-winged Parrot
From: John Harris <>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:24:07 +0000
Today I saw a Blue-winged Parrot behind my house at Nicholls which backs onto Ginnninderra Creek. I have submitted an unusual bird report.
It was a small dull olive green parrot with bright blue wings which shone in the sun. It was feeding on the grass but when disturbed flew up into a grove of wattles and grevilleas. I watched it hiding there with binoculars for about 5 minutes. In the shade it looked more like a blackish bird with blue wings. It made high pitched squeaks. After 5 minutes I tried to get closer and spooked it and it  it flew west to the woodland trees on Percival Hill. It flew straight and fast, not undulating like Eastern Rosella etc.  Plenty of Easterns around as well as Red-rumps and juvenile Crimsons which were the only unlikely candidates for wrong identification. I tried to follow but lost it. 
I raised one as a kid. It had fallen from a nest before it could fly. I had it for some years.
John
John Harris
Rev Dr John Harris,
36 Kangaroo Close,
Nicholls, ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA
P: 61-(0)2-62418472
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