I of course sit there and say Hello Hansom and it drives them nuts, they end up flying away squawking their little heads off. I must have trained one to say Hello as it scared the living daylights out of the neighbor as one sat up in their back landing and when she walked out to feed her birds it said hello to her. Seems that she threw the bird seed all over the place when that happened. She next stood out the front throwing some bread for the wild birds and it sat on the gutter above her saying hello.
It scared her senseless the first time so I decided to change from Hello to Hello Hansom.
Those things love wet bread so you soak some bread in milk and they go crazy over it. The Bird Sanctuary at the Gold Coast here has thousands of them and they actually fight with each other to get the best position to feed on you. They are also known as Squirter's as they squirt their appreciation of you from a fair distance away to stain your cloths and show just how much that they like you. People here say if they crap on you they really like you so if you have several different birds stain your clothing you must be really special in their eyes
http://www.cws.org.au/
Oh and should I add that these noisy little monsters have taken up residence in several trees besides a Football Club down the road here and can be heard well into the night arguing on who gets the highest branch to roust on over night. Seems that once the Football Club turns off the Lights over the fields they quieten down but while they have light they fly around making lots of noise.
Also if you sit down holding some bread they will come and eat it out of your hand while standing on you to get the best position to feed. They are the Wild Birds here and have not been encouraged to eat off people they are just that greedy.
Col
