Chirpy West Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia
By 2y'stassies on 21-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9594

You will need a device which can detect and read a Garmin Chirp.

When our children were young, one of them wanted to keep birds. We refurbished our avery, installed nesting boxes and got four young Peach Faces. They settled in very well and after about about six months, eggs started appearing in the nesting boxes. Not long after we heard the sounds of newly hatched birds. Some didn't survive but the others thrived and the flock built up to about ten birds. Then over a period of about a week we found three dead, each with one leg missing. Initially we suspected rodents but quickly discovered that one Peach Face that my daughter had named Chirpy, was attcking the others and biting off one leg on each bird. We quickly removed Chirpy and put him in a cage we had used for a larger bird. During the day we would put the cage outside next to the avery so that Chirpy could have company and at night, we would bring the cacge inside. When outside, Chirpy would be quite aggressive, poking his head out of the widely spaced bars to threaten larger birds (such as starlings, plovers etc) which came into the back yard. About this time our British Blue kitten, Kiri, joined the family.

Kiri took particular interest in Chirpy but soon discovered that the bird was dominant. One evening Kiri got too close and Chirpy latched onto one of Kiri's ears and nipped off a large piece. Needless to say, the timid Kiri never went near Chirpy again. About two to three years later Chirpy was oustide in his usual position when we heard Chirpy squark and a shadow appeared on the grass. We looked out to see Chirpy being very aggressive with his head and nearly shoulders out of the cage giving the shawdow creator a "tongue lashing". Then the shadow maker swooped and very quickly, the hawk decapitated Chirpy. Dear old Chirpy was buried in the garden with the full honours befitting of a warrior. This cache is in memory of a bird with attitude!

The Garmin Chirp is at the published coordinates. When your compatible device becomes connected, the coordinates of GZ and some other information will be downloaded into your device. You will need a car (or plenty of time to walk) to get to GZ.

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