Sorry about the rant but ....

The only good parrot is a dead one IMO. They have completely ruined my
gardening dream here in WA.

I bought the perfect acre block with good aspect, soil and plenty of bore
water. Shaped, manured, reticulated, planted, nurtured, waited then lost
the crop. So I learned my lesson and spent a lot of time and small fortune
on netting just so they could chew through that and eat everything anyway
( I think they see it as some sort of plastic packaging).
I have installed so many flashing spinning mirror things that you need
Flared pants and welding glasses to approach the house; they worked for
nearly a day on the birds but the disco is endless. And the array of
suspended fake eagles on high wires was truly impressive but our parrots are
made of sterner stuff. so I took them down; I feel they were mocking me as I
was the only being disturbed by their constant swooping.

Parrots eat everything I grow to the point I have had to pull out my rose
garden and grow a handful of bushes inside of a wire cage so the wife can
get a few blooms; they rip the bushes to pieces, seems the centre of the
stems must be quite tasty.
Off of an acre that was planted with all manner of fruit trees and bushes we
get a few citrus (none of the mandarins though coz they like them), the
remainder of the mulberries and bugger all else.
Avocados don't seem to worry them because what they don't eat they continue
their experiments with gravity by biting them off and watching them fall,
they learned this by practicing on the macadamias and the whole olive crop;
every damn year! (Olive harvest from 2 trees last season = 4 litres of
fruit). Not even pomegranate get to ripen - how do they know there are
seeds inside hey can eat? And please don't mention the subtropicals, my
doctor says I should try to stay calm.

I got really devious a couple of years ago and planted a big crop of super
hot Thai chillies to make chillie spray for the fruit. Reasoning was spray
the young fruit to discourage the feathered thieving bikies but the problem
was when the chillies were ripening the parrots got in and ate the lot; they
had finished the tomatoes by then you see.

So far I have pulled out all the berries, stone fruit, guavas, custard
apples and just let them eat the remainder. It costs way more in netting
than the produce is worth.

So kill them all then resuscitate them and kill them a second time I say!!!!

Now how to keep rabbits from eating the rest of the garden?

Thank god for Woolworths or we would starve.

I am going to lay down now.



"Tish" wrote in message
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Hi All,

I was watching a TV vet the other night and he said that avocados were
toxic to parrots, but that parrots loved them. Does this mean that
home or orchard avocados are a lethal trap for local parrots and
cockatoos?

Thanks,
Tish