red rumps & long billed corellas

["Wendy" <>]

On Red-rump Parrots.
I have been quite impressed to see them in inner Melbourne. On Monday I
heard calls from a tree in the centre of Drummond St (cnr Gratten St) in
Carlton. It was a pair of Red Rumps. They certainly cheered and brightened
the drab looking leafless Elm(?) they were in.
I have also seen groups of up to 10 feeding in the avenue strips between the
lanes in Royal Parade, Parkville adjacent to and  north of Melbourne Uni. A
friend who regularly goes that way says they are very common there.
Wendy