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When I was first in Brisbane in the early sixties, they had that scheme, with a red triangle about a metre across on the road surface where there had been a death. They gave it up only a few years later, as some locations (usually intersections) had the road covered in red triangles, causing problems with the road becoming slippery due to all the paint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares
My wife struggles to cook prime cuts, not sure how she would go cooking roadkill [bigwhistle]
With respect to Kangaroos, I've always heard that dawn & dusk are the worst times, but are they also likely to be around in the daytime, & what about the middle of the night?
Pickles.
Thats when i see most of them around this side of the country. An hr either side of dark they are around. And when its raining during the day they seem to come out a bit too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pickles2
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Originally Posted by jonesfam
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Yes and no. With the conditions as they are atm, you will see them at all hours around here. When it get hotter, they will go camp in the shade during the heat of the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pickles2
They are doing it hard here atm, so they seem to be feeding longer / odd hours. We have a big old wallaroo in our yard most nites now, and he will usually hang around till miday if not disturbed to much.
In normal / good years, they generally seem to feed for the best part of the nite, so plenty around in the small hours if you need to find them.
Lots of roadkill here atm too, usually play dodge the roo, pig and sometimes deer most mornings.
Ah, yes. Panguna. They used to load themselves in the back of the ute. A fellow I worked with was in the back of the ute when it slowed for the bend in the road. Thinking they had arrived at the destination, he jumped out of the moving vehicle. Ian spent a while in hospital after that.Quote:
Originally Posted by 123rover50
I drove home from Carrawinya NP (just out of Hungerford, far southwest QLD) to Drouin over the course of yesterday and today, motel at Hillston last night. Talk about a roadkill tour. Mostly kangaroos of course, emus coming in a distant second, the occasional piggy, but one interesting thing was that I only saw one dead goat, whereas they were feeding close to the road in large numbers virtually the whole way from Bourke to Hillston.
The road from Hay to Deniliquin, through the saltbush plains, was virtually paved with dead roos. They were practically in mounds in some spots. My dog went mad sniffing the front of the trailer when we got home.
1500+km in two days and we had one close call, an emu near Ford's Bridge who ran across in front of me on a bend, he just managed to tuck his tail out of the way of the bullbar.
I had a spotted deer jump out at me Sunday night. Missed him, just.
Had a little grey owl fly down and land in front of me, too. Short fellow. About 6" high. He left me enough distance to brake and flew off a little after I stopped.