parrot-potting

Updated: June 6, 2025

They are climbing in and out of the scant leafage, under and over the limbs of the tree, hanging on by their claws; and they only rise if they see us near enough to take a shot at them, when they take to wing screaming, and fly away in a flock. Once, when I had gone out parrot-potting, with another young fellow almost as green as myself, we had very nearly got bushed.

Samuel Smiles - A Boy's Voyage Round the World