Screeching at our Farmers' Markets

Twice a month we regularly have Sunday Farmers' Markets down on Armidale's creeklands. Today was no excpetion but, for once in a few months, there were large numbers of stalls and heaps of people buying the goods on offer.. Dot and I had a great time walking around looking at the stalls, buying mainly food-stuffs, and talking to various friends. Given that the sun was out after a week of cloud and frequent showers of rain, the event was exceptionally pleasant. Not only that, but the forecast temperature in mid-autumn was 22 C (72 F) - very nice indeed.

Here are a few photos I managed to take of the event. The first one shows the Ezidi food truck which I have praised before. Dot and I both brought interesting food items from their traditional homeland in northern Iraq which they fled after it was seized by Islamic State.

Various stalls were spread in a circle around Curtis Park and, in the middle, the organisers provided under-cover seating for people.

If the markets were pleasant for reasons just described, they were also fund for another surprising reason. The skies around us were beseiged a raucus flock of parrots all shouting as loud as they could. We were entertained not just by 10 or 20 birds, but by at least 300!!! And their performance must have lasted something like 10 minutes. 

What species of parrot were entertaining us? Well, they were Corellas - 'largish' birds all screeching at each other and presumably us also. Go to these sites to discover more about them.

https://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/little-corella

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corella_(bird)

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