Feeding time in Darlo

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Presumably this goes on 365 days a year in Darlinghurst. Certainly if you stand at a certain ice cream shop at a certain time each day, this is what you see across the road.

Cockatoos are the perfect bird for Darlinghurst: noisy and brash. And at least (unlike the common koel) they don't park themselves in one tree forever. And they seem to go to sleep at night.

There's one I hear around the trees that sounds like it is shrieking: "Get ready! Get real!" I'm sure it lived in a 70s party house. Where else do you get dialogue like that?

Hot in the city

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The Koel shrieks on,

The city is hot.

If I could, I'd sleep a lot.

[ps. Am I living with a vampire?]

Curing the Common Koel

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To my enormous joy and hilarity, I found the call of the offending bird (see left and also yesterday's post) on the www. Turn up your speakers for the full 4am effect. Repeat for three hours.

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/images/audio/eudynamys-scolopacea.mp3

What we have here is the Common Koel. A kind of cuckoo - lays its egg in someone else's nest, then when the chick hatches, boots the other eggs out.

What a business! Not even a 'nice bird' waking up Darlinghurst.

I've had the common cold this week. Now I've got the Common Koel.

Wanna know more? Read all about it:

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/finder/display.cfm?id=54