Hang your fat balls out in the cold weather

[Burdy Wurdy]

If you want to attract more birds to your garden, set up bird tables and feeders near dense shrubs so that shy birds will use them and keep them topped up with food so they don’t venture elsewhere. Water for drinking and bathing is important too.
www.timesandstar.co.uk/lifestyle/gill_kerrush/1.422238

www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpingbirds/feeding/whatfood/index.asp

It's not so cold but the twitters still need feeding.

[KrispyKoala]

We have neighbours that laid out food bells and drink dishes to attract and feed the black thingyatoos' in our area, they did this thinking they were doing their bit for nature and to have the 'pets' entertain their kids, what they didn't reckon on, was when the thingyatoo's adopted their timber (pinewood) decking (verandah) as building materials for their nests. They began coming in great numbers, sometimes dozens/scores at a time, when the food ran out, they began to eat everything in sight, including the verandah itself. At least $6,000 of repairs were needed with new treated inedible timber.

[KrispyKoala]

LMAO, thingytoos is er C.o.c.k.a.t.o.o.s.

[Burdy Wurdy]

What a cock up!

[mango]

LOL KK
as bad as my 'c0ckeyed' the other day



I live in the City of Cockburn
very nice it is too

referred to as Coe burn

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Heh. There was a piece in the paper here on Monday about a woman who had hung out one of those automatic fatball dispensers. When the bottom fat ball was eaten, the one above dropped automatically down - unfortunately crushing the head of the small bird that had been nibbling at the time.

Picture here:

www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=113&a=470973&ref=puff

I found it hilarious, but then I'm twisted.

[mids]

How do you discourage pigeons?

[mids]

That's not the first line of a joke by the way.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Tell them they'll never amount to anything and they've wasted their opportunities.

[mids]

I think I need a cat to tell them that.

[wetkingcanute]

Tits like coconuts.

[mango]

Jan 22, 2009 9:55:54 GMT wetkingcanute said:

Tits like coconuts.

and some like Mangos

So funny up in Cairns to see the parrots drunk on the fermenting Mangos that have fallen off the trees
Rainbow Lorikeets totally legless rolling around on their backs after sucking up the fermented nectar ....very chirpy

[radge]

Ahahahaha brillaint birds are so stupid...ITS A WINDOW!!!! would love to see a drunk parrot. that would make my day. question: do they drink and fly? now that has to be dangerous

[mango]

some try
most roll around underneath the trees totally drunk - very happy

[mango]

www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/10/28/rainbowlorikeet_narrowweb__200x282.jpg

'How sweet it is ... a rainbow lorikeet, not yet legless, sups deeply and contentedly at the nectar of the red blossoms on a flowering Schotia brachypetala in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens.'
Photo: Nick Moir

'Larry Vogelnest, senior veterinarian at Taronga Zoo, said lorikeets in northern Australia were known to become intoxicated on fermenting fruit. "Basically they behave like drunk people, staggering around and unco-ordinated."

But Dr Vogelnest said the reported behaviour yesterday of the birds in the gardens made him wonder if there was "something else in the nectar, some chemical agent, rather than ethanol ... that is making them high'

[Beachcomber]

We regularly put food out for the birds. Unfortunately it gets nicked !



He's become a regular visitor to our garden now.

[kjetski]

Jan 22, 2009 11:04:43 GMT Beachcomber said:

We regularly put food out for the birds. Unfortunately it gets nicked !



He's become a regular visitor to our garden now.

An air rifle would work well...

[Woolf]

www.bearicuda.com/index.php

A friend from Canada told me about these.

Bear Proof Bins

[Foxy1]

cute

[mango]

Splendid Fairy Wren -
munching on a moth

Denmark, Western Australia