Sunday Selections #326

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files.
 
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.  Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
 
Like River I usually run with a theme.  This week I am returning (you will be shocked and surprised to hear) to my avian obsession.  And this week I am focusing on noisy birds.

Starting with a new visitor to us.  Noisy miners.  They are from the honeyeater family, native to Australia and apparently endemic to a lot of eastern Australia.  They too have discovered the joys of green apples and are becoming regular visitors.  I think they are pretty.  They can be 'talkative' too, but we have many, many noisier (and less musical) birds.  This is their call.

Then to a long-billed corella, a bird I often feature.  Or to be more accurate, to a young long-billed corella.  This one visits often and we know it is here because if whinges constantly.  Loudly.  This is call of the little corella which is very similar to that of the long-billed, and the youngsters 'feed me, feed me' complaints are worse.   They go on and on and on.  And on.  A few years ago we saw an adult firmly rap a complaining youngster on the top of its head.  It shut up.  And inside, we cheered.

  The youngster can fly, and can feed itself.  It does both.  However if there is an adult around it prefers to chase after it and complain.  As you can see it isn't precisely 'undernourished'.  If you look at the third picture in the series you can see it beside a much slimmer adult.  

Noisy, incontinent, destructive vandals.  And we welcome them.