A RAINBOW WOOLLYBILL

[FUJI]

This colourful character was hopping about in our back garden this morning........I'm told on good authority that it is a ......Rare Rainbow Woollybill:

 

Best viewed LARGE.....Click on Pic:

 

FUJI

[Leon]

looks light they should live in a tight knit community

[FUJI]

Apparently they do Leon.......they are wonderful to watch......this one had me in stitches!

FUJI

[Martyn]

These are closely related to the weaver bird but are now very rare because of nests robbers. Folks steal the eggs to use as pompoms on woolly hats!

[FUJI]

If trained well, the young birds can become wonderful jumpers.

Apparently their call is likened to constant clicking..............and......the males in the Spring constantly needle each other.

FUJI

[Leon]

this is leaving me in stitches 

[FUJI]

I have heard......that when threatened, the Rainbow Woollybill will attempt to .......Pull the wool over the eyes of its attacker by rolling into a.......Wooly Ball.

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

That's a purl of a shot.

[FUJI]

Thanks Chris....

Other facts about these amazing birds.........In early Spring the pairs don't take ages over courting.........they just ...CLICK!

They also all have individual ways of flying .......... Not to a set pattern.

Train a captured one to talk.........and it will soon begin to spin yarns.

Most nest off ....... fair isle.

FUJI

[NannyFerret]

This thread has me in stitches.    

[Kobione]

This really made me smile this morning. The only answer I can stitch together is rather plain, and will probably result in some basic ribbing, but what happens to the young, when these birds cast off for another location?

[colinb]

good news...

 

these birds may be on the increase with the rise in popularity of the Womens Association we may (unfortunately) see more of these about.

[ChrisLumix]

Weave had enough of these horrible puns by now.

[FUJI]

What then........shall we do with the........THREAD???

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

DROP it!

[FUJI]

Too late.......I've just spotted a whole.....SKEIN ..... Of those colourful birds weaving about in the sky...........apparently they migrate annually to......NEW JERSEY!

FUJI

( keep it going folks)

[Barbara]

This thread has me in stitches.    

Me too.Just back and this is the first THREAD  I opened

[ChrisLumix]

Too late.......I've just spotted a whole.....SKEIN ..... Of those colourful birds weaving about in the sky...........apparently they migrate annually to......NEW JERSEY!

FUJI

( keep it going folks)

 

Nah - SHETLAND or FAIR ISLE, surely?

[FUJI]

STOP PRESS!

A skein of WOOLYBILL'S has been spotted, flying over.....CARDIGAN BAY...............Welsh ornithologists have been knitting netting frantically in the hope of capturing ......drop out's.

FUJI

[Barbara]

STOP PRESS!

A skein of WOOLYBILL'S has been spotted, flying over.....CARDIGAN BAY...............Welsh ornithologists have been knitting netting frantically in the hope of capturing ......drop out's.

FUJI

PMSL

     

[FUJI]

LATE NEWS,

ROW upon ROW of Woollybill's were also observed in tight knit rows, weaving in and out of the trees...........much later, they where spotted on the coastline of the Isle of White..........very close to the NEEDLES..........the birds quickly cast off in a random PATTERN toward ............ GUERNSEY.

FUJI

[NannyFerret]

PMSL

     

Quick! pass the tenners.    

[FUJI]

EVEN LATER NEWS.....

........One skein of Woollybill's , dropped one by one, to roost amongst the pine .....NEEDLES........where they ...cast off....the cares of the day.......they sleep......perchance to dream of this.......FAIR ISLE.

Night night everyone........night night!

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

Night night Fuji - I hope you dream of wandering down CABLE St rather than find yourself working on the CHAIN gang. Whatever you do, don't get up in the night, forget the light switch and come a PURLer. 

[Leon]

weave been at it long enough now!!