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Wow! Talk about thread drift.

Sylvia.

More like thread theft.

It's not politics or viruses. Most everybody likes birds.

What else would you expect from Larkin? His shit doesn't smell of course. His thread hijacks are ok of course.

True. At my last place of residence we started feeding some kookaburras. Two at first. But this feeding made them very successful breeders, and in just a few years, there were twelve of them (kookaburra offspring stay to help bring up siblings in later years), with apparently all the offspring having survived (usually, only 50% survive a year).

We were giving them a kilo of beef a week, which gets expensive.

But they're incredibly cute.

Sylvia.

They are better then sulphur crested cockatoos, which stat demolishing your house splinter by splinter for amusement. It must be time for annual birds-eating-my-house news item.

Had that problem too. I ended up reinforcing some of my window frames with strips of colour-bond steel.

Sylvia.

The previous owners of my sisters house used to keep birds in a large'ish outside bird cage, say 3mtrs by 1mtr by 2mtr high ..... until the travelling cockies ripped a hole through the roof!!

Yeah he has got his head rammed so far up the trumpsters ass he is totally oblivious of anything outside his own tiny world.

In my case it is a Hans macaw /in/ my mother's house.

I hand shaped sheet aluminimum to prevent the little darling getting at a lintel in a 2ft thick wall. Furniture is protected by sheets .

I'm often, unpleasantly, impressed by how many guys have anal fixations, talking about exit orifices and poop and stuff all the time. I do hope they wash their hands often.

I'm interested in body parts, but not those and not on guys.

Galahs are worse, at Woomera we had to cover the cable trays on the dish to stop them eating the rubber covered cables. NASA sent us an expensive polyfoam cover for one of the small dishes that lasted about 10 minutes. At Carnarvon tracking station we had a couple of MF horizontal yagis, the bloody things used to perch on the elements and bounce till they broke.

That is what they did to my old analogue TV aerial. Fat bloody cockatoos.

This reduced our bit rate some:

I don't understand the biology here. Is coax nutritional?

One night last month we heard a lot of noise downstairs. Six possum in the kitchen. At least it wasn't a bear.

Does that count as a possum posse?

Possumbly.

We have a lot of wildlife in SF. Coyotes, possum, raccoons, snakes, skunks, the occasional big wildcat, flocks of wild parrots, seagulls, hawks, ravens, ducks, hummers, bats, whales, porposes, sharks, seals, progressives, other weird things.

I discovered for myself decades ago that there are hummingbirds in SF, on a one week visit. I was sitting on the wall where Broadway runs into the Presidio and there was one perched on the railings! But I don't know if they are migratory...

The males are very territorial, and have sharp beaks.

Their servo systems are astounding. In strong gusty winds, they can hover immovably as if they were glued to steel posts.

I, too, was surprised to spot them while I was sitting outside my company's canteen in Palo Alto.