bigbadja
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I was feeding tiny mincemeat meatballs to the magpies and butcherbirds in the front garden recently.
A couple of Crimson Rosella parrots were hanging around showing great interest.
When the maggies and BB's flew away one of the Rosellas started fossicking around and found an oerlooked meatball. He adopted the usual feeding position of standing on 1 leg, and nibbled away holding the meat up in his other claw.
I had always assumed the Rosellas were seed eaters and was quite stunned by this apparant anomally.
Yesterday another 2 Rosellas joined him and after sniffing around they also fed on the meat. I now have quite a group waiting for the maggies and BB's to leave so they can get into the meat.
We are currently experiencing the worst drought in recorded history and times are tough for all the wildlife.
Was I just ignorant of the feeding habits of Rosellas, or are they modifying their feeding patterns.
Any comments
Robert
A couple of Crimson Rosella parrots were hanging around showing great interest.
When the maggies and BB's flew away one of the Rosellas started fossicking around and found an oerlooked meatball. He adopted the usual feeding position of standing on 1 leg, and nibbled away holding the meat up in his other claw.
I had always assumed the Rosellas were seed eaters and was quite stunned by this apparant anomally.
Yesterday another 2 Rosellas joined him and after sniffing around they also fed on the meat. I now have quite a group waiting for the maggies and BB's to leave so they can get into the meat.
We are currently experiencing the worst drought in recorded history and times are tough for all the wildlife.
Was I just ignorant of the feeding habits of Rosellas, or are they modifying their feeding patterns.
Any comments
Robert