11/18/2023 0 Comments Talking sulfur crested cockatooIt's nice to hear that there are people who are cleaning up the rubbish left in parks by others, Karen, but it'll be a great day when there won't be any rubbish to pick up. My interference was almost certainly unhelpful. A couple of weeks after the relocation I read that echidnas should be left to their own devices when they're seen travelling crosscountry as they're seeking new territory. I relocted it to our place thinking that the habitat there would suit it. I stopped to "rescue" one which was slightly injured & seemed to be in danger of being another roadkill statistic. On the echidna front, I've seen two in 25 years within 11 kilometres of our place. Unfortunately, it's also because someone had a big night out shooting. I'd like to think it was at least in part due to my approach to the council which then erected kangaroo warning signs on the road. The western grey kangaroo roadkill near our place has declined somewhat. Perhaps we'll soon have a paperless society after all. Not much bird life around apart from the many New Holland honeyeaters but what was pleasing was that there was even less rubbish around. Karen, does the school from which the bread crust came have an environment programme? If so, perhaps a discussion with the teacher about the sulphur-crested cockatoo & the bread crust (the follow up to The Prince and the Showgirl) might lead to students being more aware of the dangers of artificial feeding, intentional or accidental, of wildlife.Īnother lake to be rehabilitated!! Wonderful news, Araminta! Soon it will be trendy to do what you're doing & you'll be able to start your business Araminta's Rehabilitation Services for the Environment.Īslo on the good news front, Ms Woko & I took a stroll in Cox' Scrub Conservation Park south of Adelaide yesterday. Too bad that we'll neve be able to perfectly replicate what was once here but at least we're achieving quite a bit. But I do know that, for whatever reason, there are lots of people in my area who are planting not only native but indigenous vegetation. Whether or not this approach is working I don't know. Therefore, it behoves us to plant the habitat to encourage the wildlife. A garden is the poorer for not having wildlife. One of the lines I've been pushing in my locality is that birds & other wildlife are an integral part of a garden. (I'm using your thread, because I think it is related to your topic, thanks Karen. But there was a lot more rubbish in the water. Here is a photo I took this morning, you can see a table in the lake. I will give you a running report on the progress, wish me luck! At the same time I will tell them I will bring the local Press with me to write an article. Just this morning I have found yet another poluted lake in Pakenham, I will go back tomorrow and take more pictures and ask Melbourne Water to come down to meet me. With enough pressure, they will act, trust me. Those in power depend on our support, they need our votes to get their pensions. I have even protested on my own, and brought about change. But I tell you a secret, there still is such a thing as "people power", if more people would get together and demand change, it can happen. What a sad picture of our society, the place we are heading for is a very bleak place, the world our children are going to call home is a very sad home to live in. I'm not being pessimistic, I'm just telling it like it is. Sooner or later someone will deem these trees a danger, and order them removed. It doesn't work where I live even though I have let a gum or two growing. Growing natives may work best where there is more land to devote to nature. People are not going to grow grasses or gum trees on tiny plots of land they've paid a quarter of a million dollars or more for. Lets face it, many birds in cages live very long and healthy lives if their diet and social needs are met. To be honest, in some areas, I think the birds need a helping hand, so long as its the right food. I've seen picnickers feed the ducks and magpies in parks, but I don't know how many feed birds in backyards. I've said it before, they will put in a nice little park that only supports ibis and crows, thinking it makes them look good, and behind the scenes they destroy huge acreages of ancient bushland, leaving the animals with nowhere to go, either dying on the roads or of starvation. The local council there (Redlands council) is run by developers. They just don't see it, just a nuisance to be pushed out, destroyed. No thought for the land and food they took from them to start with. To be honest, I think most people in that neighbourhood think the birds and animals are only there to destroy their gardens. At the time there was a temporary school nearby. Cath and Shane, I have a feeling this fellow stole the crust from a kids school lunch, or maybe the child tossed it into the bushes.
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