When I visit
my daughter in Australia it is quite common place to see the colourful rainbow
lorikeets foraging on the flowers in shrubs and trees and the crazy white cockatoos doing their acrobatics
on the telegraph wires.
In France our
regular feathered visitors comprise the usual gang of birds including nuthatches,
tits, doves, woodpeckers, swallows, finches, buzzards and sparrowhawks. Not
forgetting our resident white barn owls that have lived in the pigeon tower
since we arrived here 17 years ago. When
we got back here in April this year I was quite thrilled to see a pair of
hoopoes strutting about our courtyard.
They are quite an exotic looking bird with their long
pinkish-brown crests which they raise when excited.
But yesterday
I was even more amazed by a very colourful visitor.
“There’s a
parrot on the nut feeder!”
“I expect it’s
a woodpecker.”
“No, it’s got
bright green feathers and a red face.”
“Definitely a
green woodpecker.”
“It’s got a
blue tail feather...”
“Good grief
it’s a parrot!”
Turned out to
be a rosy faced lovebird! Hasn’t been
back today so I’m hoping he’s gone home to his sweet heart.
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