[meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual
From: harlan trammell <skyrox_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:53 2004 Message-ID: <BAY1-F70TIVvLVKi3s1000007e5_at_hotmail.com> <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P>neat birds! and i concur w/ you buffet- i have a house 25 miles from key west and if i ever want to kill some weeds or unwanted grass, i just put on a buffet cd, head out in the boat for the day and they're dead and withered when i get back! works on roaches too!<BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>From: "Charles R. Viau" <CVIAU_at_BELD.NET> <DIV></DIV>>To: "'Roman Nakonechny'" <URANINUT239__at_HOTMAIL.COM>,<MLBLOOD@COX.NET>, <METEORITE-LIST@METEORITECENTRAL.COM> <DIV></DIV>>Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual <DIV></DIV>>Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:56:49 -0400 <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Check out those parrot ID's - supposedly, Jimmy Buffet's is still <DIV></DIV>>missing, reportedly stolen last year, but he never got it back. Who <DIV></DIV>>knows, perhaps that bird got tired of bagged seeds and listening to the <DIV></DIV>>same songs over and over again.... :^) <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>CharlyV <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>-----Original Message----- <DIV></DIV>>From: meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com <DIV></DIV>>[mailto:meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Roman <DIV></DIV>>Nakonechny <DIV></DIV>>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:47 PM <DIV></DIV>>To: mlblood_at_cox.net; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com <DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Hey Mikey, <DIV></DIV>> I'm from Brasil (true spelling) and all OFF TOPIC'S should <DIV></DIV>>be <DIV></DIV>>so fascinating. I wish I could've seen the feathery and colorful <DIV></DIV>>illegals(joke).Even parrot's are "COMIN TO AMERICA" like the Neil <DIV></DIV>>Diamond <DIV></DIV>>Global Hit Song. But it's the warm climate in San Diego, which is <DIV></DIV>>similar to <DIV></DIV>>parts of South America that has allowed them to survive and will <DIV></DIV>>probably <DIV></DIV>>propagate . The will pass by your house again . The species has homing <DIV></DIV>>capabilities- to known food sources. Let's hope some ignorant rural's <DIV></DIV>>don't <DIV></DIV>>shoot them out of the sky. In Brasil we would all come out of our school <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>rooms when hundreds flew noisily overhead.It was like a living rainbow- <DIV></DIV>>coollest thing to see. Real nice OFF TOPIC. <DIV></DIV>>Now, back to fusion crusted birds of another kind- METEORITES {:-)> <DIV></DIV>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* #0583 - OUT <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> >From: Michael L Blood <MLBLOOD_at_COX.NET> <DIV></DIV>> >To: Meteorite List <METEORITE-LIST_at_METEORITECENTRAL.COM> <DIV></DIV>> >Subject: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual <DIV></DIV>> >Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:10:43 -0700 <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> >WARNING: This is off topic, so, some/many of you may wish to hit <DIV></DIV>> >your delete button. <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > Yesterday (Sept. 8) a very unusual occurrence took place in my <DIV></DIV>> >yard: A flock of a dozen parrots came to eat my leftover sunflower <DIV></DIV>> >seeds! <DIV></DIV>> > When I went out to pick up the paper at about 8 AM I was <DIV></DIV>>alerted <DIV></DIV>> >when a neighbor lady called out to me, "Mr. Blood, there are parrots in <DIV></DIV>> >your sunflowers!" And, to my delight and amazement, there were, <DIV></DIV>> >indeed, parrots feeding off the Russian Giant Sunflowers! I had left <DIV></DIV>> >most of them to dry in the sun, even though the birds had been eating <DIV></DIV>> >them©. but I had surely never seen parrots doing so. <DIV></DIV>> > In fact, there were twelve of them ­ an entire flock. And <DIV></DIV>> >beautiful they were, indeed. Most amazing, they were clearly <DIV></DIV>> >all the same species. <DIV></DIV>> > I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos. You can see <DIV></DIV>> >most of the photos I captured of these beautiful creatures at: <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> >http://community.webshots.com/album/89632975MfUNTL <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> >(Particularly nice are photos # P16 & P15) <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > I later researched the species. They had beautiful blue <DIV></DIV>> >heads, orangish top beak and near black bottom beak with <DIV></DIV>> >a little blue in their underwing and red in the underside of <DIV></DIV>> >some of their tail feathers. Their legs and feet were flesh <DIV></DIV>> >colored and when I later examined their photos closely, I <DIV></DIV>> >could see no bands on any of their legs, indicating they likely <DIV></DIV>> >escaped bird importers in the Tiajuana area and/or have <DIV></DIV>> >bread in the wilds of this area. They turned out to be Sharp-tailed <DIV></DIV>> >Conures (Aratinga acuticaudata) which are native to Brazil, <DIV></DIV>> >Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. So, they are clearly an escaped <DIV></DIV>> >flock that have naturalized in the area. <DIV></DIV>> > It is very rare to see parrot flocks in San Diego, but one <DIV></DIV>> >hears of them appearing here & there on occasion. Usually, <DIV></DIV>> >however, such flocks are reported to contain mixed species <DIV></DIV>> >of parrots, presumably attracted to their own kind having <DIV></DIV>> >escaped captivity individually. This is the only occurrence <DIV></DIV>> >I have been aware of where an entire flock was the same <DIV></DIV>> >species. <DIV></DIV>> > In any event, I will certainly be planting more sunflowers <DIV></DIV>> >next year! <DIV></DIV>> > Best wishes, Michael <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> > <DIV></DIV>> >______________________________________________ <DIV></DIV>> >Meteorite-list mailing list <DIV></DIV>> >Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com <DIV></DIV>> >http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>_________________________________________________________________ <DIV></DIV>>Get 10MB of e-mail storage! 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