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Posted by Helen (Melbourne, Australia) on 18 July 2008 in Animal & Insect.

Meet Butch. Butch is a Butcher Bird Cracticus torquatus. For those who have been visiting for some time you will know that this is one of my Mum's wild friends. My Mum and Butch 'do' breakfast each day. At times she introduces her new children to Mum and occasionally brings her partner. Butch perches on this wire and sings for her breakfast at the front window. You can hear a butcher bird sing here.

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Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal

Perfect work here!

18 Jul 2008 7:51am

Cheryl from Texas, United States

nice clear details, love the beak! your mum is lucky to have such a fine friend!

18 Jul 2008 10:02am

zOOm from Paris, France

What a cute little creature... a cracker, Helen ! :-)

18 Jul 2008 2:43pm

rem_la from Villiers, France

il est superbe ce piaf !

19 Jul 2008 7:48am

bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada

Another fantastic photo from you! One can see the thought process here...simply beautiful.

21 Jul 2008 8:39pm

Eric Fry from Houston, TX, United States

great photo and beautiful bokeh!

21 Jul 2008 9:04pm

Fliss from Melbourne Beach, United States

Those Butcher Birds... like 'em - I remember when we had to be careful of our Budgies... that they never were attacked...

22 Jul 2008 8:22pm

@Fliss: Oh yes ... they look cute, but can act nasty! Thank for passing by.

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