Okay, the title of this post has nothing to do with the content, other than a very vague word play. I just really like Mel Brooks' History of the World Part 1.

We have a tree in our front yard, just outside my office window. In that tree is a birdseed cake. Just now I looked out to see that there were a mated pair of King Parrots in the tree, eating seeds. I can't recall having ever seen King Parrots before in the wild! Woo! Parrots in the tree outside my window! Woo!

This tree has also been host to a flock of about six Sulpher Crested Cockatoos, a pair of Crimson Rosellas, and, most commonly, Australian Magpies, who live in the bigger tree nearby and seem to regard the property as their own.

All the years I've been here and I've still never gotten over parrots in the trees. It never fails to delight me...