Message from and American friend who has spent time with us, in Canberra and
elsewhere, bird watching
Elizabeth Compston
> I woke up this morning with the resolution to answer your letter of 10
> December before I forget to do so what with all of the impending activity of
> Christmas. But it turns out that I didn't have to have that resolve because
> one of the most interesting items appeared this morning at breakfast. That
> item is a budgerigar which had been visiting our feeders since we returned
> from Cape Cod where I spend the summer at the GFD program. It must have
> escaped from a cage in someone's house. We were impressed by that little bird
> because it competed pretty effectively with some very aggressive sparrows and
> some bigger birds. In fact, it tended to dominate the other birds at both of
> our two feeders. However, I figured that it was only a matter of time before
> it would disappear because the temperature has gotten steadily colder, and
> sure enough we had not seen it during this very cold month - until this
> morning, when it appeared again in spite of the -10C temperature. Since I
> had seen it only in the outback in Australia, I figured that it was confined
> to warm climates. Obviously, not so. I wonder how long it will be able to
> withstand the winter temperatures that will inevitably be present for the
> remainder of the winter.
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