This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel in Southern New England.

Jeremy's Axis in New South Wales and Springtime, Joys of Spring. And the 11-year-old spoodle that we celebrate as

Dallas, a philanthropist with his breakfast, to the bagpie families, there might be two,

to the teenager who likes to move in to the house

when Jeremy's not looking.

And Jeremy's going to find him in the old chair one morning.

It's going to be in Jeremy's chair,

and Jeremy's going to say, excuse me, that's my chair.

But not yet.

Dallas has a cavalcade of birds that come calling.

I'm worried about the cockatoos, but let's begin with the magpies. Adventures this week, Jeremy?

It's been two weeks. What's happened? Well, John, this week we've actually got a new set of birds coming in. So we've got the original set. We've got the two magpie families. And I have to say now that teenage magpie, when he detects me in the kitchen now, I can actually see through the windows that I'm coming to actually feed them, he runs at the door. He has no shame that he wants to come in. And he actually makes a beeline effectively to the door to try and come in. So we've still got those. We've still got the crows around in the trees. We've still got the minor birds. We've still got the corallas. And we still have the vandals of the avian world, the cockatoos as well, although luckily they're looking in from the neighbour's fence so they haven't quite crossed onto the property but what i've noticed this week john and what dallas has kind of been

associating with more this week is the common garden sparrow so these are those little brown

birds that are the smallest out of all the birds that we have here they typically do come out

more at this time of year but normally they're very skittish.

So normally we tend not to see them around when there's other birds around or when Dallas is around.

But for whatever reason, this week in particular, the sparrows have actually been drinking out of Dallas's bowls.

They've actually been eating out of this biscuit bowl as well.

And the reason I know this was because in the morning when we go to work, basically,

I put Dallas outside, and that's kind of when I get to have a little bit of the opportunity

to see what birds are around.

And I actually, you know, had to come back into the house and get something a couple of minutes

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