Psittacidae Numbers Double at CB

Yesterday, Crumby was outside fixing to take pictures of bugs when he heard an unfamiliar whistle. From on high the ethereal notes of that whistle, chirp or squawk descended upon Crumby’s straining, earthbound ears. What the heck?

Hurriedly, Crumby raced into the CB. He needed to change camera lenses from the Sigma 150mm to the Olympus 70-300mm zoom. The Olympus 70-300mm zoom has this interesting characteristic. It won’t autofocus on a bird. Especially when the bird we are discussing is sitting on a wire. But it has the longest reach of any of Crumby’s lenses.

Crumby, thus, had to manually focus this important documentation record or photograph. Fortunately for Crumby, the rosy-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicallis), if that’s what it actually is, sat still long enough for Crumby to get in 10-12 shots. Out of that many pictures, this one was the best focused. It’s way harder to manually focus telephoto versus macro.

Praise the Goddess! We now have two parrots documented for the CB. However, to be honest, this particular documentation photo is not precisely at the CB. But it counts because this identical parrot was in a tree at the CB shortly before it flew over to the perch here depicted..

For the many who, like Crumby until recently, are totally ignorant regarding the great lovebird genus, Agapornis, Crumby shall now recount much of what he has recently learned of lovebirds. They are little, not much bigger than an English or house sparrow or maybe a house finch. Some of their call notes seem vireo like. Not the chirpy, shrub-inhabiting vireo voices, but the tree vireo voices or maybe similar to a tanager voice. Lovebirds are sometimes kept as pets by the cruel, ignorant and lowdown. This one must have escaped.