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Message: <blockquote data-quote="colonelboris" data-source="post: 1665294" data-attributes="member: 40117">Another thing that happened was poor old Borisette Mk. 1 managed to get herself a nasty Cockatoo bite yesterday.  Antibiotics and everything...We appear to have got a handle on the local backyard birds around the flat.  There's a family of Noisy Miners with some young that are almost indistinguishable from the parents now; a pair of Grey Butcherbirds, still with a young 'un, which sits outside our window, calling for food from the parents; a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets (which I've persuaded the Mrs not to feed any more - I guess it's still a novelty to have a pair of parrots on the balcony) and a moderately frequent group of Crimson Rosellas.We've had King Parrots out there as well and a family of Kookaburras have moved in, but we only hear them after dark.  A few weeks ago, we heard a Southern Boobook calling, as well as what must have been a Powerful Owl.</blockquote>