David Hare-Scott wrote:
Trish Brown wrote:
Jonno wrote:
This is interesting stuff. Also the veiled method of dealing with the
problem.

The scrub turkey can be a menace in the garden as it scratches around
garden beds looking for grubs and roots. However, this isn't as bad
as when a turkey decides to build a mound in your garden. Nothing
short of forced transportation to a new location miles away will
stop the bird from scratching together every loose item in a circle
up to 50m in diameter!

The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service have got some helpful
hints on how your garden can co-exist with turkeys, as well as much
other interesting information. If you really can't put up with your
neat garden beds starting to look like Middle East war zones, there
are private contractors who will relocate the offending bird(s) for
you - look in your Yellow Pages under Pest Control (N.B. this is not
a service provided by the Parks and Wildlife Service). But, be
aware, nature abhors a vacuum (!), and nothing short of a desert of
concrete will stop another inquisitive turkey investigating the
grubs in your rose bed! The aboriginal Australians and early settlers
did eat the birds, but
they are, of course, now protected.

The qeustion is, how would you deal with this problem ? Turkey soup?
And do they taste anything like a koala?



This question came up a good while ago. The advice given (and it
worked, too, according to the questioner) was to artfully place a few
large rubber snakes around the garden. Apparently, the turkeys felt
it better to avoid the place with snakes and moved on.

Who needs rubber. I don't suppose I can mail mail you a couple of
redbellys, seein as how they be protected too. It's the breeding season
and we are infested.

David

Redbellies are excellent mousers! We had one living under our house for
a couple of years and not a mouse was spotted. Sadly, he eventually
moved on and oboy! The mouse plague that followed was *prodigious*! We
caught eighty-three mice in one season! Come back, Snidely! All is
forgiven!

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Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia