The Ragtag Daily Prompt Friday: Sweltering
A Spangled Drongo feeling the heat
Tiny, the King Parrot, on the verandah getting out of the sun trying to keep cool
A questioning look to ask if there is any bowls of cool water on the verandah
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A mini-sprinkler system should be set up for these visitors. Or would that be pandering too much to them?!
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They have enough places to cool off. When it’s hot I don’;t have much water to spare but always have bowls placed around the yard 🙂
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I hope you obliged this polite parrot!
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Tiny’s charm is hard to resist 🙂
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Wow! Beautiful birds. I take it the Drongo is stupid bird by his name lol. Is Tiny your pet? He’s magnificent!
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Spangled Drongos are quite intelligent. Not sure how that derogatory name came about. Tiny isn’t a pet. He just seems to like hanging out around the house perhaps as he is smaller that other King Parrots they may pick on him. He does have a partner though and she comes with him to sit on the verandah regularly.
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Ha! Figures he’s intelligent with that name. He looks a bit like a crow we have. If he is in the order corvus that explains his brain power they’re so smart they watch fisherman hooking maggots and catching fish and learn to do the same with lures of their own.
How nice to have such a spectacular bird like Tiny hanging around. Your a lucky person living in an area full of majestic birds.
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Not a Corvid.
https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Dicrurus-bracteatus
There are around ten King Parrots that come around most days to check out the garden. When the fires came through and decimated my place, I out food out for the birds and a lot have stayed on. I out some seed out on occasion but not enough to let them loose the ability to forage for themselves.
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Thank you for the info. That was an interesting read.
Those parrots followed the food to a safe haven and stay thats lovely. Well done you for taking care of the wildlife around you.
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Birds know where to hydrate themselves even in extreme heat.
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I supply lots of shady places and water for them around the garden 🙂 🙂
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Hi – I love the look in that last photo and I bet they like hanging around because they feel your good energy
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I do hope they feel my energy of a place to be happy and safe Yvette 🙂
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And this is why I always keep a water bowl on the outer wall of my home, just for the feathery friends 🙂
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You are a good man Hammad 🙂 🙂
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