Comments on: Birdulence http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:35:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: rsynnott http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-104 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:21:20 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-104 I really would love to live somewhere where you get birds like this running wild. Here, we're lucky to see a few starlings! I really would love to live somewhere where you get birds like this running wild. Here, we’re lucky to see a few starlings!

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-88 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:00:54 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-88 By "pot plants", of course, I meant "innocuous plants in pots". If it'd been the way YOU suggest, I would have dug out the weeds post haste :-). By “pot plants”, of course, I meant “innocuous plants in pots”.

If it’d been the way YOU suggest, I would have dug out the weeds post haste :-).

]]> by: beeman http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-81 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:56:05 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-81 "crowding out some pot plants" dan your still my australian hero “crowding out some pot plants” dan your still my australian hero

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-74 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:51:44 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-74 Cockies (and <a href="http://birdsinbackyards.net/finder/display.cfm?id=46" rel="nofollow">galahs</a> - for some reason I've only ever seen one of those eating the seed we put out) will indeed dismantle houses and/or cars when they feel like it, but there are plenty of other feeders around Katoomba for them to visit, and we don't go away very often or for very long anyway. Two of the cats have no desire to go out at all. One goes out for a couple of hours of wandering about and looking ferocious every evening. He doesn't get far, has never to my knowledge killed anything with a spinal cord, and we don't let him out until the birds have all gone anyway. Cockies (and galahs - for some reason I’ve only ever seen one of those eating the seed we put out) will indeed dismantle houses and/or cars when they feel like it, but there are plenty of other feeders around Katoomba for them to visit, and we don’t go away very often or for very long anyway.

Two of the cats have no desire to go out at all. One goes out for a couple of hours of wandering about and looking ferocious every evening. He doesn’t get far, has never to my knowledge killed anything with a spinal cord, and we don’t let him out until the birds have all gone anyway.

]]> by: gloonk http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-73 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:28:29 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/10/14/birdulence/#comment-73 nice little birdies aint they? That is until you go away for a week and you come back and find the cockatoos have eaten all the railings from your deck and sills from your window frames cos they got no food. They are also very fond of starting to chew on motorcycle parts (handgrips, throttle cables and seats).A few years back i had to work on a house in wollongong that had all the cdear window frames and door sills eaten away, by their lovely cockies (they really are great birds, i mean that genuinely, they have got loads of character)cost them a heap. On a lesser note are those seed blocks really all that healthy for native birds?( i really have no idea) and please say that you have at the least bells on the collars of your cats so as they don't kill your birdies (assuming you let your cats outta the house to roam) regards gloonk nice little birdies aint they? That is until you go away for a week and you come back and find the cockatoos have eaten all the railings from your deck and sills from your window frames cos they got no food. They are also very fond of starting to chew on motorcycle parts (handgrips, throttle cables and seats).A few years back i had to work on a house in wollongong that had all the cdear window frames and door sills eaten away, by their lovely cockies (they really are great birds, i mean that genuinely, they have got loads of character)cost them a heap.
On a lesser note are those seed blocks really all that healthy for native birds?( i really have no idea) and please say that you have at the least bells on the collars of your cats so as they don’t kill your birdies (assuming you let your cats outta the house to roam)

regards

gloonk

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