cods wrote on Jun 30^th, 2017 at 8:03am:


I had to laugh at your post Cods. It's not coming back for food, but stones. You'll probably have to buy another bag eventually.

cods wrote on Jul 1^st, 2017 at 9:08am:


He's probably sharing them with his relatives Cods. Still the pebbles would work out cheaper than fresh meat. Next year you'll probably have 2 or 3 big black visitors pinching the pebbles.

I had a lovely sight in my garden this morning. The native minors were going beserk the way they do when a cat dares walk into their territory. They were all perched on a huge old palm tree screeching crazily. There are wisteria vines wrapped all the way up the tree and around all the falling fronds and husks so a dozen or more nests have formed which some of the smaller native birds use. These nests are secure and well protected.

About a third of the way up the tree - I saw the sweetest little ringtail possum's face peaking out from a nest. It had a good look around then turned back inside, curled up and went to sleep.

The birds stopped screeching and went about their business. I think they wanted me to know I had another intruder in the garden. Just a guess of course.

Birds by nature are attracted to all kinds of peculiar bits and peices- hair feather anything shiny etc- they use these bits and peices to build a nest/s - I think lyre birds build nests in the long grass and so they might be attracted to stones etc- there are a few birds that build on the ground in grass etc-

Last winter when SA was inundated with fierce windstorms a family of crows were nesting in my big gum tree out front and had baby birds had just hatched - they were twittering each morning and I used to watch the parents take turns in feeding these ravenous babies-

One afternoon a huge windstorm hit that town and the tree full force and I worried about the babies in the storm wondering if they would be blown down and so be at the mercy of cats etc- the next day and the day after no signs of life and I as resigned to thinking the worst had happened- then on the morning of the third day I hear the faint twittering of baby crows again- and from that day it was business as usual-
Birds are amazing creatures  but they didnt come back this year - not to my tree anyway

The screeching of white cockatoos has to be the most godawful sound in the world! If I walk my dog along Sturt Creek near dusk there is a huge flock of the damn things screeching away, ugh!

Agnes wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2017 at 10:44pm:



I dont think we have ground nesting birds in Canberra agnes...this is for sure a blackbird  black all over with a white iris  .. he wont have a bar of shiny stones 

even if this was a ground nest he was building by now it would have to be 3 feet tall...lolol a condominium maybe