Last to post wins

[Mr Ploppy]

This worked quite well on another forum site.

It may float or sink on this one. We'll find out.

Don't ask what you will win being the last to post, it will be something useless.

But have a go anyway.

I'm last to post so far. Am I a winner?

[mmMekitty]

"Mind the gap" - King Charles III.

[smallwolf]

Yes I feed them. Are they dependent? Well, between all of them they only get about the equivalent of a hamburger patty - they seem to know that when I go inside there is no more to eat and will fly away. There is a little bit of war that goes on between the kookaburras and crows - the crows want something and the kookaburras don't share 🙂 In fact, kookaburras don't really share between themselves. Have a winner takes all approach. 

I think there are 2 families. A couple of babies are not so much any more and the rest are older. And there is a  little bit of fighting between a couple as well, like I was here first.

[mmMekitty]

Charles Darwin would (if he could) be chuffed - 'survival of the fittest' & all that. I can only hope their squabbles don't get brutal.

I was at a part beside a river, when some seagulls came along. I gave them a little of what I ws eating, & soon became aware there was a heirachy amongst them. One in particular was constantly denied any bit of the food. Another was the one which most often pushed & pecked the other away, thereby grabbing the food for itself. This bully seemed to be top of the hierarchy.

Other gulls scrambled around the bully & weren't pestered like the small bird was trying to grab some food.

I tried to get some food to the one being bullied, but my efforts failed.

Except it was smaller than the other gulls, which could have been because it was not getting enough food, I could see no other reason this bird was being denied both the food & any place in the hierarchy - seemed it had been deemed the least of them all. 

I felt sorry for the small bird.

Other than that, it had been a great day, just spending time out in that park, then on the ferry. I may have had my camera with me that day too, but I'm not sure now.

How have you been?

[smallwolf]

Hey Kitty,

I have had a couple of longer days and have not seen my birds 😞 Hopefully tomorrow. 

(they are not really my birds... but they seem to know me, if that makes sense.)

[mmMekitty]

Yeah, wolfie, their presence so frequently nearby begins to feel 'friendly', a sight & sound to brighten your day, something familiar, which gives us a sense of there being

friends.

I'm not sure if Kookaburras stay in the same place all year round. Could it be it's getting too cold where you are?

I hope they are still around, & you have the pleasure of their company soon.

Hugzies

mmMekitty

[Whatsinaname]

Just flying through to take last place

[quirkywords]

WhatsinanameI have taken your place.

[mmMekitty]

PLease, sit awhile, stop for a chat; it's not a race ...

Really ... it doesn't have to be, when we set our own pace.

[smallwolf]

i just stopped moving

[mmMekitty]

Oh, Wolfie, you'll stagnate if you don't move. Your joints will stiffen & feel sore, if you don't move. Contrary to any natural sense that says curling up in a blanket & not moving will keep you warm, you actually will become cold, especially during cold weather.

It's movement that warms us up. Movement gets the heart beating faster, the blood flowing throughout the body's organs & tissues, from your toes, (or paws), to your brain, & into the tip of your cute little nose, giving it a lovely bit of colour.

So, when I suggest we sit & have a chat, I don't mean that we stop moving forever, just for short periods of time, then we move along until we find another spot for a chat, picnic, snooze, to explore together, no hurrying is necessary. But yeah, staying still means nothing new comes into our lives; nothing has a chance to change for the better.

Hugzies

mmMekitty