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choughs!

You wrote that just 'cos you know I love the blighters! Mind you, I was
woken up by our tribe somewhere near the bedroom window this morning. I
would have gone and said a big BOOOO to them to send them off somewhere
else if I hadn't been so warm and comfortable.

they are the only species i have ever encountered that i want to blow to
kingdom come with a shotgun. they are intolerable to me, and yet, there's
just not much i can do about them.

In some places, I've had to mulch with large rocks to keep the mulch in
place. Course that doens't work in the vaggie patch so there I've sometimes
had to use bird net, but overall, I love their socialness and their antics.

one of the dog's jobs is to chase them
out of the garden, but even he is becoming bored with that after a week -
it's futile!

Sounds just like my lazy bunch of freeloaders!

i am trying to do green manuring atm before it's too late in the season,
but i can't until they are gone - otherwise they will just dig everything
up, the ****ers.

And then the Sulphur Crested Cockatoos will arrive no doubt :-))

interestingly, i have mentioned them to a few people & not everyone has
heard of them (i never had till i came here). i suppose they are the type
of species that you have sometimes, or else they never ever turn up so you
never hear of them.

Ours come and then move on again to god knows where.

I suspect that I will be whinging about them though by this time next
week as I have about 10 bags of gorgeous lucerne laced with horse poop to
spread - I'm just waiting for the rain whihc is refusing to arrive here.

we got some drizzle but it didn't rain properly this time.

Nah, here neither. It's overcast here, but still no rain.


saw some black cockatoos recently, screaming. it was raining at the
time. aha, i said :-) i thought of you.

:-)) Now was that because of the screaming or because I'd said that they
were the harbingers of rain?

oh, because they scream just like you g!

Bitch!

no, i thought "well, very easy to fly around screaming when it's already
raining, you silly birds!!" when people tell me things, i try to determine
what is happening. so, i'm going to be on the lookout for black cockatoos
& rain until i am satisfied there's a link. (very scientifically minded,
me ;-)

Well given your locale and the fact that rain and the presence of black
cockies is more likely than where I am (or where Mum was) you may never see
that link.

they really are fabulous birds - it just can't be helped that i find
them so sinister. but i'm a bit funny about birds esp large ones. it took
a bit of gumption for me to chase the choughs out of my chook pens (sigh)
because horrible flapping birds all around just does my head in entirely.
and no, chooks don't freak me out whatsoever because i don't really
consider them "birds", so i don't mind if they get very close!

Ah. In that case I can understand the 'sinister' reference. I love big
majestic birds. I could spend hours watching Wedge tailed eagles on the
thermals.