Flying Diaries-Mondo

Some birds can be aggressive to others, watch out for the Noisy Miners!

QBN

Hi Readers, and welcome to the second Flying diaries!!!

This Story is about a wonderful little bird named Mondo.

Mondo was a baby New Holland Honeyeater who was attacked by Noisy Miner birds. He was stripped of all his feathering and near death. Luckily, he was found by a nice lady who took him inside and treated him. She did an excellent job in bringing him back to health and he started
eating nectar from a teat pipette by himself. Though he was older, he was still bald.

The kind lady then needed a bigger cage to keep him in so he would build up more flying skills. So she gave him to us. We put Mondo in the aviary and he made excellent progress. He stayed bald for a while though, but when his feathers grew back more we released him at our house. We had him for about a month.

We had heard honeyeaters could grow quite attached to people… and that was right! Mondo was having trouble finding food at first as there was less native food around in Summer. He was delighted to spot us again when we walked past him! He flew straight at us! He was desperate for food. We got him some fresh nectar and placed it on the outside of the aviary and he flew to perch on the tub and drank up the food. He had come back for us! We started leaving out food for him and he took it each day. But soon, he was coming back less and less. And then, when the native flowering gums came out, he stopped coming altogether.

We knew he had joined a group and maybe even found a mate!

Success!!!!!!!

Queen Bird Nerd