I sympathize with u i hate the b@$#ards they ate my brand new weather station slingshots are legal in QLD shoot them with palm berry's that will learn them i have not shot them because i live in NSW sling shots are illegal here lol best of luck with the vermin

WOW! I remember seeing shows on tv (maybe PBS?) years ago regarding how much of a pest cockatoos are considered in Australia. Footage of HUGE nets being shot up and over flocks of the birds while they where on the ground. Maybe devastating some crops. After they were trapped under the nets, a number of people set about dispatching the birds. I didn't really understand it at the time. People in the U.S. keep them as pets. They are such beautiful intelligent birds. They can get pretty expensive here in the pet trade.

Reading your posts Ben and Peter gives me more to understand. Similar to the way I feel about grasshoppers, aphids, gophers, caterpillars or any other eating machine that destroys something I've worked so hard to grow, but on a much bigger scale.

Tyler

...they banned slingshots??? Really???

Wow! A black cockatoo? Never seen one. That'd fetch a pretty price here, I'm sure. Mostly what I've seen here are the Salmon Crested Cockatoo like they used to have on that 1970's era tv show Baretta with Robert Blake.

Your right, it doesn't add up. Dead is dead and gone is gone whether from being shot with a firearm or a sling shot or captured and sold off. I'm sure the authorities must have some reason that makes sense...right?

I thought Adenium taste bad to animals and are toxic, I wonder why the bird eat so much of it. I prob died after that as a lesson lol

Here's a link to the Magpie attacking cyclist. Enjoy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhEHTyseuUI

One persons beauty is another person's bane. Too bad. They are gorgeous creatures. Intelligent and apparently very hungry.

I've heard that sometimes things that are poisonous to us, other creatures tolerate with little to no problems.

Tyler

They are beautiful birds but very destructive.

I would never kill one. I just chase them off. If i was a farmer I would catch and sell them in spite of the regulations. What are they going to do once people realise the government allows thousands of birds to be slaughted. Thats the good thing about social media, the people can share the information. Governments and corporations can no longer contol so easily the public. Why do we do what were told like sheep even when we know its wrong or doesn't make any sense? We have a brain and free will but instead crazy generic rules govern our daily decisions.

Wow thats intense i will fess up i sent the stupid birds up there i told them to destroy all pink adeniums you caught them dumb birds if they didn't get caught we could of blamed the blooming rabbits u can shoot them:×)

Ah it was you! I will have to catch some birds and train them to come destroy all your adeniums in the middle of the night Peter! And I'll tell yhem to bring to me all your non pink blooms! Mwa ha haha!!

Ben - don't do that, then Peter will come to WA and steal all my RaraImports Adeniums lol

I imagine if Sling Shots are illegal, so are pellet guns?

I've heard that about Australia, everything's trying to kill you. Lol

I saw an episode of "Nova" just last week, (I forget where) that Macaw's eat a lot of toxic seeds/pits and what not. Where ever they were (country), there were cliffs of a clay that contained anti-toxin compounds, and they would gather there in large #'s to eat the clay.

Rob

Poor Peter and his pink blooms. Speaking of rare imports, I ordered from them on 10/july and still havent recieved my order. They waited a week after i ordered to send it out. And now Australia Post says its due to arrive wednesday next week! So all up going to take 16 days to get my order and plants will probably be screwed from being in the post for 10 days! Bloody hell!

Rob there's a reason why England sent its criminals to this country. To suffer at the hands of crazy ass animals and.. the postal service, as punishment! Us decendents are still paying for our ancestor's crimes!

Ben - did u chose the express post? I know they have to strip the plants off soil and treat them bare rooted to pass quarantine. Im sure plants will be fine as they are dormant in winter.

You guys might want to just throw rock at the birds.........slingshots can be a bit dangerous.

https://m.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=24113d89dfd8

I knew that for some reason the title of this thread seemed familiar. Finally was able to recall why it rang a bell. (DINGO DONG!) Good one, Ben! Pretty funny. Took me a minute, but I finally got it!

Tyler

Wow Don't stop balls with your face .Tyler what a place to serve a life sentence give me Australia over England any day! :×)

Tyler - Me too! ;-)

Too bad there's no way to write with an accent.

Rob

Bloody hell mate Us aussies haven't got an accent the rest of the world has

Nooo Agatta i didn't get express post they told me orer monday and get regular post and it will arive by friday! Argh i hate the post! I checked the online tracking sevice and it sat in the same post office in WA five days. Your right Peter give me sunny Australia any day over rainy England. But the English are the highest imigrants here. Why we don't become a republic and remain with the Queen of England as our head of state? If we are independent? We got a big identity crisis in our nation, if we are ever going to be united we need to build our own identity! A big problem in our schools is there are two class of Australians.. 50% of Australian's have one parent born over seas or they were born overseas! Because we are a Monarchy of England and have the Union Jack on our flag. English background always going to be "more" Aussie than non English background! But what makes someome who is Anglo Saxon more Aussie than everyone else? As long as rhe Union Jack is on oir flag always non British background are going to be less Aussie than the rest of us. Thats my two cents anyway.

I have russian aussie accent lol

Ben I got my plants from WA and got them express post I took about 4 days to get here. I just soak the roots in a very water down seasol. soak them about 10 mins and pat dry and planted them they are all doing well 2 of them have got buds on them

Thats a good idea soaking them in seasol. The plants arived today i potted them up straight away and gave em a drink of watered down seasol. They not in the best condition, a bit bruised and battered most of the leaves squished and half dead. When I took them out of the box they were cold like ice very strange. I can only imagine how cold they were when sitting in Melbourne over night. Oh well they were a good price at $25 will have to give them lots of tlc and hope they turn around quickly.

Texas and Australia seem to have a lot in common!

Ben - show us some pictures of your beauties :)

In Texas you could shoot pest here its hard .i took a stray cat to the pound i almost got a fine because I trapped it in a cage trap it was peeing all over my D/R stinking my plants out ,because i took it to the pound still in the trap they threatened me with a fine the cat was not harmed by me it was a mental vicious cat.

Lol bloody cats people either love em or hate em im on the fence about them. Ah Agartta i don't have any others bloombing yet I wish I did so I could take some pics. I dont know what the weathers doing here it started getting warmer and most of my Adeniums were starting to get new buds but now the weathers gone down again to 3 Celsius (37.5 Fahrenheit) I went all out and got a heater yesterday for my greenhouse, im going nuts with my seedling production something like 4000 seeds came in the mail the other week and i want to get an early start on the growing season.

U need a grow tent and heat mat that will fix em and a light

Ben, that is beautiful seedling you have.

Marie

Don't you have lyrebirds in Australia too? Those things are pretty neat. Probably would be annoying to live with, though.

Sure do not around were i live they are 1/2 hr away in the national park these are the most popular birds around me they become quite friendly you can hand feed them

I've never seen a lyre bird before are they even real? Not like the drop bears, you get them everywhere around here!

Dont the liar birds live in Canberra

Peter -Yep I agree, lol, at the white house.