Grippin' by the pool

Long before Chinese ping-pong players, these fellows invented the claw grip.

They're known as Western Corellas and they frequent Perth's City Beach where there's lots of casuarina nuts for them to chew on.

I do believe they're Hazel's favourite parrot, which is why she took this pic' and thousands of others like it. On celluloid too. We had to take out a second mortgage to get them developed.