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