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26 June 2006

The surprise on my bird feeder This gorgeous creature showed up unexpectedly on one of my bird feeders. It answered back to my poor attempts at whistling, and knows how to wolf-whistle. It flew away, but came back again. I'll have to look up the kind it is, I've never seen anything like it!

post by: redvixen at: 16:18 | 16 comments

wow! where are you?

We have some feral parrots around here, but none of them are that vividly colored.

posted by small_ruminant 26 June | 16:21

That's a budgie, isn't it?

posted by jokeefe 26 June | 16:24

Wow. May I also say how much I like your flower photos, and that self-portrait shows you are indeed quite the vixen!

posted by Miko 26 June | 16:31

Not a budgie (parakeet) with that coloring. It's somebody's pet, perhaps an Edward's fig parrot?

Ditto what Miko said!

posted by Specklet 26 June | 16:32

Very pretty little birdie!

posted by fenriq 26 June | 16:46

WOW! i wanna live where you do!

posted by Mrs.Pants 26 June | 16:53

Pretty birdie!

There's a cemetery with similar headstones down near the townhall in Fairfield, CT, where I partially grew up, too, and a "parrot tree" just outside the cemetery walls with huge monk parakeet nests. I keep a chewed-end twig that fell from one of the nests in my pen cup, just because.

posted by Pips 26 June | 17:20

I'm in New Jersey, so it certainly isn't a local bird! And it's about the size of a blue jay (or a gray jay if you're in the Western half of the country).
Pips, that's so cool! Some of the more elusive birds I've been fortunate enough to see have been while I was cruising cemeteries.
And many thanks to the self-portrait compliments! Specklet, I tried to go back in the archives to the infamous "Specklet's Boobs Thread" but the pictures are all gone. Judging by the content of the thread, they were spectacular! ; )

posted by redvixen 26 June | 17:26

Lovely! And how. :)

posted by tr33hggr 26 June | 17:47

Wow, that's an amazing bird! At first I thought it was a painted bunting, but now that I see the pics of those, I see your visitor looks nothing like that. VERY cool. Maybe somebody on Flickr will know... you should add a "birding" tag to all those pics and try to submit them to a birdwatching group, to see if you can get some of the bird hobbyists in to see the pics.

posted by BoringPostcards 26 June | 18:24

Dude! Rosella!.

Don't ask me how it got over the Pacific, though.

posted by coriolisdave 26 June | 19:24

Yeah some sort of Rosella was the closest in color I could come to. From Australia, New Zealand, thereabouts. Some flight. It's wings must be tired. :)

posted by redvixen 26 June | 19:40

Aw...looks like someone lost a pet! Have you checked the ads in your local paper?

posted by jrossi4r 26 June | 19:52

Agree jrossi -- it's somebody's exotic-bird baby.

posted by Miko 26 June | 19:58

Yeah, I figured it was a pet, especially since it can wolf-whistle. (or maybe it just whistled at me *bats eyes*) But the only missing birds are one cockatiel and a love bird. But maybe it just escaped today, so I'll keep checking the papers. And I'll call the local animal groups, just in case someone called them. At least it's summer and warm here now.

posted by redvixen 26 June | 20:13

Astonishing! I don't think I've EVER seen a bird with so many colors! It's like a kid's painting of a magic bird or something. Would have blown my mind if I saw it. Good thing you got pics.

posted by nickyskye 26 June | 20:44

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