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Birdy weirdness
Nov. 19th, 2019 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rattfan I don't have any photos for this one because it happened out of nowhere, a few days ago. Outside St Marys Cathedral in the city, where I perambulate on my break, but imagine this. Half-asleep office workers are jolted to sudden alertness as wild screeches break out above and a blast of colour as four rainbow lorikeets fall out of a palm tree, flapping and screaming. [But here are some rainbow lorikeets I prepared earlier, when they visited me at work, three floors up]
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They're gorgeous looking little parrots, though not native to Western Australia, but the scream of a rainbow lorikeet can bring tears to the eyes and blast the eardrums. Four at once can just about paralyse your nervous system.
They fluttered to the ground, two locked in combat, the other two appearing to play a cheerleading role. I was on one side, another unsuspecting pedestrian on the other. We exchanged WTF looks. None of the birds seemed to notice us. In the end I did move towards the combatants and made a "what's all this then?" noise to break them up before somebody ended up dead and they did separate at that point.
The wildlife in this immediate area are confident to the point of insanity, but this was extreme even for locals.
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They're gorgeous looking little parrots, though not native to Western Australia, but the scream of a rainbow lorikeet can bring tears to the eyes and blast the eardrums. Four at once can just about paralyse your nervous system.
They fluttered to the ground, two locked in combat, the other two appearing to play a cheerleading role. I was on one side, another unsuspecting pedestrian on the other. We exchanged WTF looks. None of the birds seemed to notice us. In the end I did move towards the combatants and made a "what's all this then?" noise to break them up before somebody ended up dead and they did separate at that point.
The wildlife in this immediate area are confident to the point of insanity, but this was extreme even for locals.
