Thread: Storm Birds

We have a variety of birds at our place as we are part of a 14 acre dam paddock,which plays host to a collection of egrets,mained geese (wood ducks)and in bad weather Pelicans,at the moment we are feeding a pair of nesting Magpies,(feed them and they don't bomb you)cheeky things walk into the laundry,we also have a hand feed Kookaburra "Klaus" he/she is feeding young,we feed raw Roo&Beef mince to our dogs,so they also get it.


"Klaus" has been around for a couple of years now,and comes when call by name.

We put a bit of bird seed out for the King parrots,and also the occasional pale headed rosella arrives for a feed as well,dodging the noisy miners.

The last week or so we have noticed the grey butcher birds eating the seed.I also put a walnut with the seed yesterday and the grey grabbed it immediately and flew off with it.A bit strange as there is heaps of their normal food around,particularly when we are gardening,they always swoop in to grab a feed of some kind of insect,or a small lizard,etc.

The juvenile greys will even grab an insect such as a grasshopper or moth out of your hand,but the adults won't come near you.

And those damn brush turkeys that love to build a big mound and make a great mess of your garden also like the bird seed

Our Maleny house is only a short distance from the Mary Cairncross 50ha. nature reserve, so we are on a trail of birds and bats. We quite like it and are planting more small flowering shrubs to attract the smaller birds, which hide in the dense bushes where the aggressive big birds can't get them. One way to attract more birds is to really heavily mulch all your gardens, which means the gardens then become full of worms, bugs and other tasty treats for the birds. It also gives the bush turkeys more scope to ferret about. Hence my many trips to the Sunshine Coast Council tips for trailer loads of free mulch. As a famous gardener once said, the answer to most gardening problems is more mulch.

Scientists take the first photo of a rare kingfisher, then kill it......for science





First look at the moustached kingfisher - Australian Geographic?