Not only did Noddy the budgie love sugar, he wasn’t averse
tasting other things too. Like a ane dollar note of our much played monopoly game.
Granddad caught wild birds too. His trap was an oblong cage that was divided
into three. Each third had its own lid that. The lids were attached to a small platform
that hung underneath. The way the trap worked,
was an already trapped bird would be in the centre cage to lure other birds
down, tempting bird treats would attract birds to land on the platform. The
weight of the bird on the platform would make it fall and close the lid thus
trapping the bird. The hardest part was trapping the first bird. The trap
really did work.
Talking of birds, I remember Mum trying to rescue a bird
that had something tangled around its legs. The bird had got itself caught up
in one of the tall poplar trees in our backyard. Did she reuse it, I wish I knew.
I’d read about magpies being attracted to bright sparking
objects. Not that I had ever seen one, I am sure there were none around when I was
a kid. By the time my children were the age I had been thee were relatively
common place.
I was very fond of a series of books by Enid Blyton. The famous
five books. The adventuring children had a parrot that accompanies them on their
exploits. The parrot was white, sulphur crested
cockatoo called Kiki. The kids got up to all sorts of adventures, but always
manage to get home safely.
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