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Re: Hill billy capers

Post by Outlaw Yogi » Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:10 pm

mantra wrote:
Been trying to get (with marbles from a sling-shot) this bastard, and then he did me a favour by catching himself - greed for dog biscuits
What's the problem with the magpie. Are you going to put it out of its misery? It looks like it has a broken wing.
The problem with the magpies is they steal food, shit on my ute and washing, and just generally annoy me.
It didn't have a broken wing, that was just the position it was in when I took the photo.
Killed it quite a while back now. Waited till it was asleep, snuck up and stabbed it with the spike on a tent pole. Then used it for fertiliser.
Magpies are not a nice creature. I've never seen a push bike rider climb a tree and steal their eggs yet.
I slash and/or burn areas which makes their foraging much easier, so they've got plenty of ground to find food on, but they prefer to invade my space/camp area and make a general nuisance of themselves.
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Re: Hill billy capers

Post by Outlaw Yogi » Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:44 pm

Love this creek, has the most fascinating rocks. Pigs reputedly love it too, but I'm yet to see one there.
Just snakes, goannas and scorpions. There is an old gold mine beside it, but most of that area has the wrong mineralisation. Generally where you find Fools gold (iron pyrite = iron & sulphur) you find real gold. And this creek intersects a ridge loaded with iron pyrite. But the creek itself and the other end of the ridge is loaded with White mica (aluminio-silicate = aluminium & silicone).

The old bloke who owned the lease the creek runs through died of brain cancer about 8 years ago.
My suspicion is he was regularly drinking water from the creek, and aluminium is a nerve toxin, so I reckon that's what gave him brain cancer. Apparently he went paranoid and thought someone was injecting his oranges (in a stock yard) with poison.

The family members who inherited the lease have had it up for sale since he died, but no one wants to fork out $100K for a 2000 acre lease because it's mostly steep rocky uncleared ground. I really like the jungle/rain forest along this part of the creek. If I had a spare $100K I'd buy it and mine it.
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I did a minor exploration with a mate (I'd known since high school) who stayed at my place in 2012.
Yesterday I took the dogs (Jazzy refused to get on the ute with Fred - he roughs up other dogs on the ute - so I left her at home) for a bit more thorough exploration yesterday.
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Being hot I didn't really expect to find any pigs, and I have a superstition where if I see 2 snakes I see no pigs. All up I saw 4 snakes and 3 goannas.
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Post by Outlaw Yogi » Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:52 pm

I really like Strangler figs ...
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Quite fond of Cluster figs too, especially when fruiting ...
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Never expected to find, and is the first time I've seen Stag horns growing wild ...
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Post by Outlaw Yogi » Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:59 pm

I'm pretty keen on vine forest too, reminds me of Tarzan ...
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... or George of the jungle ...
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Post by Outlaw Yogi » Sat Oct 29, 2016 10:07 pm

And where you find vine forest ...
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... you find Bush turkey mounds ...
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... and where you find turkey mounds you find goannas ...
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Post by Outlaw Yogi » Sat Oct 29, 2016 10:18 pm

Most of the creeks in my area have Stranglers but this creek has a lot ...
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... at the end of a hot day's trecking dogs like a swim ...
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It just so happens I also like scrap yards, to source stuff to make/build things with.
Today I went to ...
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Re: Hill billy capers

Post by mantra » Sun Oct 30, 2016 5:31 am

Outlaw Yogi wrote:
The problem with the magpies is they steal food, shit on my ute and washing, and just generally annoy me.
It didn't have a broken wing, that was just the position it was in when I took the photo.
Killed it quite a while back now. Waited till it was asleep, snuck up and stabbed it with the spike on a tent pole. Then used it for fertiliser.
Magpies are not a nice creature. I've never seen a push bike rider climb a tree and steal their eggs yet.
I slash and/or burn areas which makes their foraging much easier, so they've got plenty of ground to find food on, but they prefer to invade my space/camp area and make a general nuisance of themselves.
If there is a disease ravaging their numbers on the east coast - it will probably spread unfortunately. I have definitely noticed a decline in my area - so it is probably heading north.

In the last couple of months the butcher birds have disappeared. I've always had at least 3 to 6 come regularly to my garden. Although they're meat eaters they are sweet, sociable little birds. They all have an individual song to attract your attention and you get to know which one is calling you for a treat.

There are a couple of manic Koel birds attempting to nest in one of my trees. This year they have been noisier than ever. Either they're two males looking for mates - or they're having problems keeping the wattle birds away from their nest while they lay their eggs. I heard the next door neighbours complaining about their noise again, but fortunately they can't do a thing about it. I love their screaming and screeching. This year the adults are spotted and very pretty, unlike previous years when they've been black. When they're circling the trees they look like hawks.

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Re: Hill billy capers

Post by mantra » Sun Oct 30, 2016 5:58 am

Outlaw Yogi wrote:It just so happens I also like scrap yards, to source stuff to make/build things with.
Today I went to ...


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It looks like a painting. You're lucky if you can get stuff for free.

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Re: Hill billy capers

Post by Outlaw Yogi » Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:11 pm

mantra wrote:
If there is a disease ravaging their numbers on the east coast - it will probably spread
I could do with that disease at my place. Magpies don't like Kookaburras or Crows, but are too gutless to take on Crows. They wait for the Noisy Minahs to harass them in to moving on, and then the Magpies tail the Crows as they're leaving. I once saw a Kookaburra fly off with a Magpie chick in its mouth.
mantra wrote:In the last couple of months the butcher birds have disappeared.
Still got plenty of Butcher birds. The little grey bodied ones around my camp, and the larger black and white ones around a cleared area up near the road.
I know black fellas don't like Willy Wag-tails, but I used to 'coz they're cheeky little characters. That was until one sitting on a power cable above while working on the panel van I used to drive shat on me and started shitting on my washing while living on a farm about 50km away.
So I trained one of the larger Black and white Butcher birds to keep the Willy wag-tails away from the house. I could feed him by hand on my back porch, and he would bring his young in for a feed, but wouldn't let them take food from me. He had to take it and then feed them himself - playing Boss.
He got a bit too game though and just walk through the back door right in to the house.

Then the Magpies started standing over him for the food. So I had to toss it so he could catch it mid air, which Magpies can't do. Then they started chasing him for the food, so it became sling shot warfare.
One time I spotted a young Magpie on a star picket out the back. So I snuck around the shed and shot him in the head with a Macadamia nut from about 20 metres just as he took off. Knocked him stupid for a few seconds while he hovered doing two 360s. Then went off complaining to its parents and the Magpies kept their distance.

There are a couple of manic Koel birds attempting to nest in one of my trees. ... When they're circling the trees they look like hawks.[/quote]
Don't know what Koel birds are.
A few years ago Galahs tried moving in and were driving the Rainbow Lorikeets out of their holes, so I shot one and they moved across the road. They tried moving in again during which time I watched the Hawk hunt them. They haven't come back.

A couple of nights ago I heard a weird noise in the long grass beside my Western boundary. I went out with a head torch and then heard another strange bird sound. I went over and found a hollow stump about 5' high, shone my torch on it and two White cheeked Rosellas came out. One dropped to the ground and Fred grabbed it (had bugger of a time getting it off him). then I noticed a 4' long Brown Tree Snake aka Night Tiger aka Dolls eye snake on the top of the stump. It was raiding the nest.
I went to get a camera, after taking a potentially poison bird off Fred, but upon return the snake was gone. I could still hear this weird squawking, so shone the torch and aimed the camera in to the hollow and got ...
Oct16#63 - White cheeked Rosella chicks (cut @ 60%).jpg
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Re: Hill billy capers

Post by mantra » Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:01 am

Koels are also known as Cuckoos. They are not native. In my area they aim for a wattle bird nest - throw the eggs out and lay their own. The wattle birds are trojans and work so hard to raise the baby Koel until the parents return to collect it. The babies are twice the size of the wattle bird.

The babies make that annoying repetitive hoot for weeks until their parents find them.

Baby Koel
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Adult Koel.
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That is a fantastic photo Yogi. In 2 decades I've only seen Rosellas twice in my garden. I did see a pair of King Parrots recently nibbling at the berries on a macadamia shrub. That was a rare sight.

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