Yep those damn bats. How times have changed Luddy. We were there just after the war. There was a huge colony that moved into the mangroves between the city & Hermit Park, beside the causeway. The whole town stank.

Rather than having some fool demanding they be admired, this was about 1947, when people had more sense.

They called in the army, who brought a couple of those WW11 flame throwers. A couple of squirts sent the bats on their way, & they burnt out the roosting site. Locals said it eliminated the mossies & sand flies in the area for months too.

<< Grrrr...and double grrrrr >>

Same here, Poirot.

How is it possible to carefully read over a post at least twenty times, do a spell and grammar check, and still get glaring errors.... which then stand out like dogs balls as soon as you reread your comment after posting it!

The old MWS strikes again (missing word syndrome, which really drives me batty on OLO!!)

< I reckon that’s where the crows GOT the idea! >

Triple Grrrrrrrr!!

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Yes Haz, those currawongs can be problematic. Likewise with noisy miners. In fact, there are a quite few native species which are arguably worse than any of the feathered ferals like Indian mynas, sparrows, starlings or feral pigeons.

But we can really blame those damn pesky feral humans for mucking around with their environment and causing them to go somewhat awry!

"But we can really blame those damn pesky feral humans for mucking around with their environment"

Oh really, and why is that? Humans are the biggest feral pests, just ask Belly:)....The greens have warned multiple times about the environmental impacts we cause and just to see the devastation is truly heart breaking.

Belly said, he knows what the Greens are up to..lol...mate! Its all right:)...your pills are on top of the fridge.

Planet3

WmTrevor,

Perhaps we could do a Latin-American rewrite as well, wherein the native avian population set their sights on the new world invaders - as in "Freeze Dried Gringos"...(apparently,according to wiki, the Andean civilisations preserved potatoes using a freeze drying process...so it's totally believable : )

Just a suggestion, or course.

(I've obviously got too much time on my hands today : )

P3 may you come in to close contact with a wooly bull.
Newcastle a few years ago had an invasion of flying chooks, the frozen kind.
Smashed in to car ports, and roofs , no one ever found our who did it.
Got to go, shooting crows, dedicating them to P3.

Playing god again here, but this is an unusual one. It is not often that a kookaburra needs help.

My home is L shaped, with the pool, now converted to a fish pond since the kids left, in the root of the L. My computer is beside the family room glass door, leading out to the pool.

I could hear something like the cooing of a dove as I sat here, & ignored it, but finally went to have a look at what it was. This was very lucky for a young Kookaburra.

He was at one end of the pool, against the edge, wings spread, with only his head above water, & obviously exhausted. I scooped him out, & set him on the grass, but all he could do was lie there, he had no control of his legs.

An hour later he is on his feet, but not able to walk properly of fly. I have had to move him a couple of times, as the ants were swarming onto him. At least now he's strong enough to threaten me, when I move him, a good sign.

Wish him luck.

A lot of young birds don't make it when it is dry like this, when they try to bath in something they can't get out of. Last year it was a young eagle in one of the bath tubs used as water troughs. He was still fit enough to be very threatening, & grabbed a fence paling I offered him very hard. It was still a couple of hours before he could fly.