~ MCJ's photos

Midnight says "I love you" to Raphael with his tail. I should have posted this on Valentine's Day. Josie beyond. Taken in Jan 28th 2016

She realises it's ok to be in that spot, she was worried at first, she's in a cat bed I store on the washing machine lid when they are not put outside.

Raphael had been at me for a while, meowing...it was also hot. I think his face looks like a Maine Coon cat here. Mercedes and Midnight beyond.

I forget the Identification of these...Every Summer they spring up by themselves and give this flourish of Spectacular Orange. CROCOSMIA FLOWERS, Thanks Fizgig!

I've extended a patch of long grass that I don't mow, and the cats just love it.

Taken through a window. She's very happy these days, eating well and very active.

Not a great photo but I wanted to show her face expression. She's in the beds I stack on the washing machine when I haven't put them outside. It's the first time she's climbed up on them, and she's not sure if she's allowed. She thinks I'm going to move her...but Mercedes always sleeps in them and I don't mind. It must have been raining for the beds to be inside during the day.

Raphael, getting walked in my front yard.

Raphael, checking all the smells since I last took him out the front.

He's got a belly that flops now. He misses being able to roam off the property.

He's in the cat enclosure, the door is always open now, as the yard is fully enclosed. Midnight and Raphael were sleeping identically on that timber, but as soon as I came in Midnight jumped down.

He is such a happy boy since his dental surgery a few months ago. He is affectionate and he loves cuddles especially in the morning when we had a cool change a few weeks ago.

He has his summer coat on, so no lion mane. My neighbours from hell poisoned Raphael and Tabitha on New Years Day. The cats exhibited same symptoms as last time, and especially Raphael was frantic to run up to the back fence and smell around since that day for a few days. I have to keep them inside at night now, even though the yard is fully enclosed, since the poisoning happens at night.

She is terrified. I'm trying to get her used to outdoors in the daytime. She is very frightened and keeps trying to run back inside. She's been like this the 3 years since I rescued her. That is why I have the harness on her. She settled down and enjoyed the attention but ran straight inside once I took off the harness. Josie has been bullying her and this has caused her to remain skittish.

"Why are you disturbing me. I was sleeping". This was taken with one of two cameras I was given for free at a garage sale, A Fujitsu XP10. The owners just wanted to get rid of the cameras at the end of the day. I purchased a new battery, a usb cable, and a memory card and hoped the camera would work. I am happy with it.

I try to get it to eat the special lorikeet dry mix, so I dip it's beak in it, but it won't eat it. So then I put it on the orange and it likes the orange. After making this video I mixed the dry mix with water and it hardly came up for air, it absolutely loved it. I also examined it's legs again...pretty sure they are both deformed but he can control one claw, not the other. Since it ate the watered dry mix, it was familiar with it. So my guess is that it's been hand raised. Also it's not going crazy after 12hours with me when I handle it which a wild parrot would be doing. Update: I've just realised that cat carrier is galvanised wire which can also cause heavy metal poisoning...so I'm digging out a proper cage for it. Update: The wildlife rescue said it has likely been hit by a car or it has flown into a building. The lady said it's likely a trauma injury and I should have taken it to the vet straight away. They didn't tell me that on the phone when I rang about it. She said there is a chance it's only concussed and that's why it doesn't have full use of it's legs, and if the vet thinks it's concussed, they will try to save it, otherwise they will euthanise it.

Ok....So I hear this distress screeching and I get up an rush to the back yard, so does Raphael and he has to push his way past me and get out the door first (typical cat). I see Midnight up the back leaning to something. It's just gone dark, the cats had been fed, and there is this bird on the grass. Wrong time for a bird to be out. I immediately pull off my Tee Shirt and wrap it up and set it in a cat carrier for the night with Lorikeet food and fruit. It's leg is no good and I can't tell if his wings are ok. This morning I let him out inside and he can fly but he can't use that bad leg. That leg in the photo hanging to the side is his good leg. Sometimes he gets stuck on his back. I settle it down, feed it while I hold it up right. It goes to bite but when it bites the fruit or orange, it realised good food and started to eat. I was pruning it's neck feathers and lice started running onto my hand, so I took him outside and rang up WIRES. They rescue native birds. They said it's the 3rd one today in my area that they've had to rescue. I'm still waiting for them. My backup camera is dying. As you can see, it can't filter the light. I usually get a wash out of the image. But the camera works in movie mode. So the next post is a movie. UPDATE: I JUST DID SOME RESEARCH, FOUND A YOU TUBE VIDEO OF A GALAH WITH CLENCHED FEET FROM HEAVY METAL POISONING. IT LOOKS EXACTLY WHAT THIS LORIKEET HAS. "WIRES" said they had 3 calls today for the same bird sick in my area...so yes, poisoning sounds right...