A friend just sent me this and I thought it well worth sharing.
Anthea Fleming
Saw something that astonished me the other day: watching a pair of
magpies puttering about on a friend's bird feeder/table. Rainbow
lorrikeet lands, strides purposefully across table, like a slightly
drunken sailor in search of more whisky - HEADBUTTS Magpie straight in
the breastbone - magpie falls appx 4 ft to the ground....picks self up
in a 'yes sir, anything you say sir' kind of way, and continues to peck
about on the ground...lorrikeet takes charge of entirety of table. no
ifs, buts or maybes
am absolutely astonished by this. I know rainbow lorrikeets are ratbags
but am unaccustomed to the concept of a magpie taking second place under
any circumstance (have known a friend's cat to hide from magpies, after
catching one....and copping the ire of its relatives ever after). Have
you seen such a thing?
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