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I win!
15 March 2004 - 8:58 am
Today is the Ides of March 15 March Not to be confused with these Ides of March.So beware today. One of the fun things about moving to a dramatically different place is the you get dramatically different scenery. You�ve already seen a few examples here and here. Not only do I get new plants but I get new wildlife too. Specifically, I get new birds. Granted we have our share of doves and blackbirds and what not that you can see just about anywhere. But for the longest time I�d heard these funny squalks flying through the air and in the trees. I could hear them in the palms when they landed but it was had to find them. Small green object on bigger green and plentiful objects makes for a lot of looking and not a lot of finding. Finally, after much effort and looking like a complete boob while running around peering up into the sky nearly falling on my face with a camera glued to my head pointed at nothing because you can't possibly catch these things on film or digital in flight, I got a picture of one, as seen here -- (notice this is not taken on a plam or in flight :-P)
Now, the hubby and I have had an ongoing debate about what this thing was even before we had seen it up close. He kept telling me it was a PARROT . I kept insisting it was too small for a PARROT and therefore my guess was a PARAKEET. This has been going on, mind you, for several months; ever since we moved here. It was much like the "religion" debate people have. I wasn't changin' my mind, neither was he; we were both insistent that we were right. N'er the twain shall meet. I should've made a bet with him.So after I snapped that picture I immediately went to google to find this site with this picture of...
Pic from South Florida Birding With Larry Manfredi ...a MONK PARAKEET. This site, and subsequent others I�ve found, CLEARLY states this bird is a MONK PARAKEET and not a silly PARROT. What was even more brilliant about it was the pic was taken in South Florida not far from where we are, so there's no arguing about a different "variety" that could be somewhere else. Nope. Right here in South Florida, baby! Granted there were other pics I found of some green PARROTS, but they were much, much bigger than these small little birds. And you know I'm not tellin' him that. ;-) No way.
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