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Gilly having a shower - Feb 12, 2012 KatzHartz 16 views Here is Gilly, our Eastern long bill corella enjoying a shower to cool down, been hot up our way lately.
The Cockie Family - Feb 06, 2012 KatzHartz 17 views A family of sulphur crested cockatoos come to visit.
Loris, Cockie and Ducks visit in the Wet - Jan 25, 2012 KatzHartz 27 views Been a wet week so far and last night we had heaps of rain and with the rain come our regulars looking for a feed.
Our Ducks - Jan 19, 2012 KatzHartz 15 views We also have ducks that now visit us regularly - its real nature world at our place, the adult ducks have been visiting us on and off for a couple of months and also came ...
Family with Baby Corella - Jan 14, 2012 KatzHartz 288 views Parents bring their baby corella for look-see. One of the parents appears to be a Western corella and the other parent a regular, short bill corella.....we get heaps of mix...
Molly meets Meldrum - Jan 14, 2012 KatzHartz 46 views Molly, our Indian Ringneck, finally was introduced to her new partner, Meldrum, this afternoon. Tomorrow, we will put Meldrum into Molly's cage and see what happens....all ...
Jaffa and her rope - Jan 12, 2012 KatzHartz 27 views Jaffa is now 6 months old and as playful as ever. Here she is enjoying her rope with Dad. Evelyn thinks she is part dog the way she brings the rope back for more play.
Xmas Day visitors - Dec 25, 2011 KatzHartz 56 views Our regular visitors dropped this morning, Xmas Day - sulphur crested cockatoos and male king parrot.
Cockies come to visit again - Nov 23, 2011 KatzHartz 45 views Five sulphur crested cockatoos came to visit today, they are regulars these days and loads of fun to watch but can be a bit noisy.
Our kittens Mohan & Jaffa - Nov 03, 2011 KatzHartz 9 views Mohan had the big cut today and here he is after we picked him and a bit groggy and certainly not happy with the Elizabethan collar he has to wear.

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KatzHartz

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Feb 11, 2012

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In July, 2007, I suffered a heart attack which included 29 resuscitations, having 3 stents inserted and a triple bypass. It would be fair to say this came as a shock. Surviving this was one thing, getting through the recovery and rehabilitation process was another.

Depression and getting over this became a real challenge as did the need for me to reassess my life and lifestyle. One of the things that helped me to do this was becoming involved in caring for wildlife.

A few years before my heart attack, my wife became involved in Wildcare, specifically looking after and rehabilitating injured parrots. Whilst I had helped out a little, this really was my wife's "baby". This all changed about six months after my heart attack when a particular bird visited us one day and decided to make our house a regular stop on a daily basis.

Honky is a Western long bill corella and so named after her particular barking call. It was clear that at some stage this bird had been tame but had obviously either escaped or been let loose and had taken up with a local flock of short bill corellas, some of which had been visiting us on a regular basis.

Interacting with this particular bird really opened my eyes and became a joy and something both my wife and I looked forward to each day, and still do. Not long after, my wife came across an Eastern long bill corella which also appeared to have once been tame - although not as tame as Honky. We called this one Gilly and later found out it is a male.

Because he had wing damage - looked like someone had butchered part of a wing - and he could not fly properly, we kept Gilly and he in fact has become my soul mate - when I do my daily exercise, he does his exercises with me and without doubt has become part of my motivation to not only exercise daily but to get over my depression at the time.

In May, 2009, my wife was given another eastern long bill (female) to be a companion bird for Gilly. Believing it to be a female we named it Tzippy and they spent the next 18 months together in one aviary until late 2010 they started fighting and following a DNA test we found out Tzippy in fact is a male. We have had to keep them separated since.

In these videos, you will see just how important our birds have become to both my wife and I, and I would urge anyone recovering from heart surgery, or any illness for that matter, to find an activity or passion toward which they can draw positive energy and direction from.

Caring for and looking after injured birds has helped me overcome my illness and depression and for this I am very grateful.

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Australia

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Teacher, educator

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UNSW, QLD TAFE

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Helping my wife look after injured birds, primarily parrots.Spreading the message about how the public health system saved me following a heart attack and the rehabilitation process after a heart attack.

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