I was frightened when I first saw Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. When we arrived at the caravan park in Edenhope, S.A. and the proprietors told us the conservation officer would be coming by in the evening to shoot at the Corrillas (white parrots with the red slash across their throats). We didn’t understand, thinking this was just more Australian slang. When we turned into the park we noticed an abnormal amount of guano on the cars and the caravans were protected by guano-covered tarps. Usually we try to find some shade but this time we parked away from the trees. Just as we were sitting down to our five o’clock happy hour a dark cloud appeared coming down the lake accompanied by voices of thousands of happy parrots returning from the wheat fields. The parrots landed
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