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 Posted Sunday, 19 October 2008 6:38 PM |
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I had an experience with a naughty turkey ... going into my bag and taking out my vegemite sandwich when my back was turned for a few minutes.
The children have been building amazing cubbie houses and frill neck lizards are feeling at home ... I was taking a photo ... as insurance before the weekend in case they were damaged.
The turkey ran past me - as if it was feeling guilty - got back to my bag and found the sandwich I was treasuring eating on the way to my car had been removed and eaten. No wonder it had a guilty conscience. And worst of all, I had urged the kids not to leave any scraps or food accessible for the wildlife when we were not in the bush area ... oops
Phil
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| Posted Monday, 29 September 2008 11:00 AM |
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| Hi Gord, I've spoken to our Waste Services Team who have told me that Council's current contract for recycled rubbish collection expires in 18 months. As part of negotiations for the new contract a range of options will be considered including weekly recycling, the choice of having more than one bin or possibly a larger recycling bin. Unfortunately there is no capacity to make such changes under the current contract. Council is currently trialling bulk recycling at high rise units across the city and will continue to roll this out at the end of the trial. If a unit resident requires additional recycling bins for a complex, the Body Corporate or manager can contact Council and request an additional bin. An Council officer will assess the need for additional recycling bins based on a range of criteria including safety and capacity. With recycling bins filling up quicker than ever due to more vigilant recycling practices, it is also a good idea for us all to squash whatever we can before placing rubbish in the bins to try to fit more in. 
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| Posted Sunday, 28 September 2008 9:55 AM |
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| Al I just looked up your California Condor, seems we'd have plenty of dead Kangaroos to sustain it, (roadkill) but would still like your humming birds. Seems that in the general distribution we got all the parrots and no Hummers. I've seen lots of pics of those that people have sent me, that they are feeding.....made me very jealous, but in the over all picture, Australia certainly cannot complain about our population we just need to be more conscious of protection from feral cats and foxes that could wipe out things like what in my humble opinion is the best mimic in the World...The Lyre Bird who can not only sing his own song but others, plus take off dogs, chain saws etc. He is ground nesting so is under threat. Cheers The Swaggy
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| Posted Saturday, 27 September 2008 9:00 AM |
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| If we are serious about 'greening' Brisbane, would it not be helpful (in terms of encouraging recycling) to have the recycling bins emptied weekly as opposed to once per fortnight? If we recycle properly, the yellow bin would need to be emptied more often than normal bins, as opposed to the other way round. In blocks of units, where recycling bins are shared, there is no hope of encouraging its use when it fills up so quickly, but is not emptied for two weeks.
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| Posted Saturday, 27 September 2008 8:34 AM |
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| Swaggy, I've just looked up your "Brush Turkies,and I'm not sure that I would want one in my back yard along with their 16-24 eggs, but the head does resemble a California Condor's, and I'll bet you'd like to see one of those.
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| Posted Wednesday, 24 September 2008 8:11 PM |
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As most avid gardeners would know a visiting Brush Turkey keen on reclaiming his old family territory can be seen most places around Brisbane. Once that male turkey has chosen his site nothing it seems will dissuade him from building his mound that can be quite enormous and in a valued spot in your garden.You can imagine the telephone call by Mrs Fitzrichlist to one of her girlfriends " Sally I'm afraid we shall have cancel our weekly tennis game, some dreadful turkey bird is scratching up the court to make his nest" Of course its the male that does the building and the hen will pop in every now and again to see how things are going. The male testing the temperature until things are right and that when she will deposit her eggs and then disappear. I have heard of all kinds of cures,one was to cover his chosen site with old car tyres. His response was to incorporate them in the nest and presumably had the only Dunlop mounted site around. Another was to hang mirrors around his nest to give him the impression of being surround by male competitors 24/7.His nest building continued as he engaged in self admiration. Then of course there is the removal job where someone comes and removes him for a fee. The turkey replacement is quick to take advantage and move in.The most bizarre cure I read written in a local Brisbane newspaper.by a journalist. His cure was to discreetly urinate around the nest site  . I never did find the answer to that except he may have been arrested for indecent exposure or his friends no longer attended his barbecues now having found out that there was not a sewer leak at his place. However, do not despair. Another one was put up on the ABC's Sunday gardening program by a Brizzy gardener. Her solution was to lay down long palm fronds and pin them into place with tent pegs. Apparently the turkeys long nails can't manipulate them. Failing that my suggestion is to wait for the hatching and enjoy the experience. I have birding friends in U.S.A who would kill to have one .....just like I would some of their Humming Birds  . THE SWAGGY
Swaggy
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