Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

did anyone else watch musterdogs on aunty?

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

did anyone else watch musterdogs on aunty?

I haven't, but my wife and kids have been, it's not helping my situation much I can tell you, youngest is desperate to get a pup and train it.... Unfortunately for him I'm hesitant as we already have well too many pets.

But it'll happen, can't really hold it against him, I was a mad keen trainer of sheep dog pups at his age....

Humble brag...I got offered somewhere in the vicinity of $2-$3k thirty something years ago for my best dog, but your best dog is also your best mate, no way that was happening!

My pick is black and tan Kelpie all the way.

Cheers
James

It wasn't me but Beans??? Black Beans??? Mexican jumping beans ? Flock of blackbirds drops dead mid-flight in Mexico

Flock of blackbirds drops dead mid-flight in Mexico




Police in the Mexican city of Chihuahua have reported close to 100 yellow-headed blackbirds suddenly falling out of the sky. The unexplained deaths were caught on a security camera.

[QUOTE=NavyDiver;3136450]It wasn't me but Beans??? Black Beans??? Mexican jumping beans ? Flock of blackbirds drops dead mid-flight in Mexico


Flock of blackbirds drops dead mid-flight in Mexico




Police in the Mexican city of Chihuahua have reported close to 100 yellow-headed blackbirds suddenly falling out of the sky. The unexplained deaths were caught on a security camera.

Chihuahua

Ah, now you are talking real Attack dogs.



They didn't all die going by that Vid. Maybe most were knocked unconscious by summat & eventually came to & took off again but they haven't reported that.


After cleaning windows sometimes we have Blackbirds fly into them so I look to see they are as OK as can be & leave them. Go back an hour later & they have gone & sometimes you just have to touch them gently & they are off smartish like.


Some there were still fluttering about on the ground & some actually took flight.


Had they flown over an industrial exhaust of some sort or a Chemical cloud ie. Chlorine etc (or Col. Sanders,) which may have happened a few km back but drop, they certainly did?

what are you calling blackbirds 4bee?

ravens? starlings?....of which SA has too many of the feral things...

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

what are you calling blackbirds 4bee?

ravens? starlings?....of which SA has too many of the feral things...

A bit like the Gold Coast then?



No not Ravens & not Starlings just Blackbirds.

How did blackbirds get to Australia?
The common blackbird was introduced to Australia by a bird dealer visiting Melbourne in early 1857, and its range has expanded from its initial foothold in Melbourne and Adelaide to include all of southeastern Australia, including Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.

Hi,
The Tasmanian infestation started when somebody broke into an aivary at the Beaumoris Zoo to steal some more exotic birds and didn't close their breach.
Much public discourse ensued, "Dear little dicky birds sing so sweetly" v.s. "They will ruin the Small Fruits industry."
That was the end of many berry farms on the hills around Hobart and beyond.
Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
The Tasmanian infestation started when somebody broke into an aivary at the Beaumoris Zoo to steal some more exotic birds and didn't close their breach.
Much public discourse ensued, "Dear little dicky birds sing so sweetly" v.s. "They will ruin the Small Fruits industry."
That was the end of many berry farms on the hills around Hobart and beyond.
Cheers

Thanks aus..

Here it still is parrots of all sorts that wreak havoc & as a general matter of Interest I see an Ad today that the multi acre Fig Orchard is again opening it's doors (?) to self pickers.


They'd better hurry I think, because by the time the season ends there will be buggerall to pick once the native bird population & not just Blackbirds, read the Magazine.

A lot of various orchards are now enclosed in netting supported by many poles. No not the Polish Poles who one would think would stand there with arms held high, the woody ones.



It's Time To Pick Your Own Figs, And Kick Back At The Fig Bar