> On 18 Jan 2023, at 07:07, mike wilson <m.9.wilson@ntlworld.com> wrote: > >  >> On 18/01/2023 04:45 Alan C <cole@lantic.net> wrote: >> Common all over South Africa too, even in remote camps of the Kruger >> Park. The ones here escaped from a sailing sip en-route to Aus. Can't >> imagine why they were being taken there. > > They were a common pet, being easy to feed and otherwise look after, so it might be that. Or they could have been wild birds that inadvertently went to sea with a ship and remained there until first landfall. This could happen if a crew was in the habit of feeding them. Perhaps they were being transported for stealing loaves of bread. They were easily caught because they habitually overestimated their own fully-laden airspeed velocity.

> On 19/01/2023 15:59 Bob W PDML <pdmlbw@icloud.com> wrote: > > > > On 18 Jan 2023, at 07:07, mike wilson <m.9.wilson@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > >  > >> On 18/01/2023 04:45 Alan C <cole@lantic.net> wrote: > >> Common all over South Africa too, even in remote camps of the Kruger > >> Park. The ones here escaped from a sailing sip en-route to Aus. Can't > >> imagine why they were being taken there. > > > > They were a common pet, being easy to feed and otherwise look after, so it might be that. Or they could have been wild birds that inadvertently went to sea with a ship and remained there until first landfall. This could happen if a crew was in the habit of feeding them. > > Perhaps they were being transported for stealing loaves of bread. They were easily caught because they habitually overestimated their own fully-laden airspeed velocity. They wouldn't have much difficulty getting out of the leg shackles.

In fact, English settlers brought them here as cage birds. They escaped, and have driven most of the native species into isolated enclaves where there are few humans to feed the lazy HOUSE SPARROWS. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 7:32 AM mike wilson <m.9.wilson@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > On 19/01/2023 15:59 Bob W PDML <pdmlbw@icloud.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 18 Jan 2023, at 07:07, mike wilson <m.9.wilson@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > > > >  > > >> On 18/01/2023 04:45 Alan C <cole@lantic.net> wrote: > > >> Common all over South Africa too, even in remote camps of the Kruger > > >> Park. The ones here escaped from a sailing sip en-route to Aus. Can't > > >> imagine why they were being taken there. > > > > > > They were a common pet, being easy to feed and otherwise look after, > so it might be that. Or they could have been wild birds that inadvertently > went to sea with a ship and remained there until first landfall. This > could happen if a crew was in the habit of feeding them. > > > > Perhaps they were being transported for stealing loaves of bread. They > were easily caught because they habitually overestimated their own > fully-laden airspeed velocity. > > They wouldn't have much difficulty getting out of the leg shackles. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.