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"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:

But do you have any ideas for getting rid of currawongs? The
mongrel
*******s eat smaller birds and I need my wrens for aphid patrols.
BTW, the aphids have arrived and still not a sign of any ants
anywhere
near the roses but the wrens are very active.

A good way to increase your local wren population is to provide them
with nesting sites. A lot of my birdhouse gourd houses are occupied
every year, sometimes twice in a season. :-)

Easy to make too.

I have quite a few birdhouse gourd seeds on hand if you want some?

Thanks for the generous offer Om. Are you in Australia? If not then
I must sadly decline due to quarantine concerns. However, I'm sure
that the problem isn't breeding, we have lots odfine leaved shrubs and
bushes and each year we have babies. It's just that the sodding
Currawongs are such efficient and effective killers.

Don't think I've never sent seeds to Australia. ;-)
One just has to have the "knack" if you know what I mean.

Seriously, contact me off line. The beauty of birdhouse gourds is that
you can control the hole size and keep the killers out and protect the
young. House wrens are pretty tiny.

Of course, you can use just about any gourd, or build some small bird
houses. It's just that the gourds are convenient and easy, and fast. One
of my most valuable items is time it seems! Hence the "pop up"
greenhouses I have. Spent maybe 1 hour max erecting each one and putting
in the shelving.


We went away for 3 days and when we came back we both noticed how much
the small bird population had dropped. We keep an eye on the
Currawongs when we are here and "discourage" them for being aroudn.

Are you allowed to own an air rifle? Around here, those are not
classified as a firearm.

Squirrel is delicious. Can't help but wonder the same about Currawongs?

;-)
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Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch"
-- Jack Nicholson