You in my world now, Jane Davenport

Beakonsfield

This is about as close as I've been to a parrot in a few weeks.

I did, however, see two particularly cute rainbow lorikeets canoodling in a date palm, next to Novak's pub, in Northbridge, this morning. They were very chipper, having been deloused by a generous storm cloud.

Several passers by stopped to spy the colourful couple. So parrot appreciation could be on the up in Perth. Let's hope so.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand. The matter in hand is a mic in a mic stand and Definition of Sound as the main brand.

No, hang on, back to the real matter at hand. The pic' above.

Yes, for the past few weeks a veritable cornucopia of parrots on South Street, Beaconsfield, has been stopping off at Chez Un tournesol for breakfast.

I took this snap Monday morning, and the silly things flew up onto a power line when I got too close.

They are wild, after all.

Wild, but mild.

Corellagram

This fella's no oil painting, with his blue tongue, curling proboscis and bulging blue eye.

But he does keep the pesky pine cones in Hilton Park, Beaconsfield (WA) under control.

Hekyll or Jekyll?

Perhaps no nation celebrates its parrots in art quite so much as Australia.

Though that's a big "perhaps".

In Perth, for instance, you'll see all manner of cockatoos and cockatiels adorning bus shelters and the sides of butcher shops - even frozen, like this one, in bronze surveying a chess board in Hyde Park.

Satisfaction at last.

I'm tankin' here, Mum.

That tail looks yummy.

Daddy's no help.

Aw c'mon!!!

I'm not kidding!!

Feed me!

But they got it all over their mates

I'd better ease you into the world of the long-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) slowly, because what comes next is really quite shocking.