Yep, a great soundtrack for this one. It'll get more coordinated in time - so less funny. I'm firming up on one male, two females and I suspect the male chick was taking a dip - but physically they're still identical. Cheers Larri.
@ funny is always good. Watching them work it all out will be delightful. Here- neighbours playing wall penetrating jolly Christmas music😬. Murray’s world - bird songs. Ahhhhh 🪷🧘♂️🪷🐬
I see the Bar-Shouldered Dove doesn't have to drop it's wing to have a scratch. They're very pretty. So it must be a leg length thing. But there again I haven't seen an ibis or a stork having a scratch and come to think of it neither a pelican 🤔 The chicks are growing up fast and learning everyday. C1 loves a bath as much as mum. Was C3 just playing with the piece of core or was it intentionally softening it and then lost interest with it. I don't trust that PHR. I believe it has a sinister M.O Bubbling Trumpet CBC was doing his best at avian jazz. I think he needs a mute. Great stuff Murray. See y'all next vid. Cheers 👍😀🇦🇺
Yep, I thought the scratch was an interesting contrast to magpies, Blue-faces etc. I hadn't noticed a bird scratching like that before. Oh - a contestant on Family Fortunes was asked to name a bird with a long neck. His response was "Naomi Campbell". I think it came back with it wrapped around its claw and it picked it off and dropped it in the water - maybe it was just wiping the gum off its boot? Maybe softening, I suspect it might have tried to eat some given it must have visited the clump I put on the lawn near there. Agree completely - the Rosella looked really shifty - very much looking to cause trouble. Cheers John 👍😁👍
That was a nice variety of birds enjoying a morning bath & preen, Murray! We have an unfortunate situation here according to today's edition of the Camden Haven local newspaper - eight magpies found dead or dying on a front lawn in a nearby suburb, and in the last few months the local FAWNA has received calls for more than 25 sick peewees and 200 sick, injured or poisoned magpies. The council is discouraging the use of pesticides on gardens although the cause of the bird deaths hasn't been determined (I never use them) and they're also suggesting leaving a damp towel on the lawn overnight to encourage armyworms to appear (I've never heard of this) & encouraging people to use alternative grasses from couch grass, which they say can throw off cyanide gasses. I'm wondering if you've heard this about couch grass and if you've come across the damp-towel-on-the-lawn-overnight method? I haven't heard of either but am interested. So far "my" magpies all seem well thankfully. Cheers, 🙂
Well, from some research it appears one couch hybrid can produce cyanide under some conditions and has been linked to the death of livestock. But gas? That seems unlikely. It also seems unlikely that there is enough of one particular couch - that's really a forage grass and not a lawn grass - to have an effect like that. Damp towel on the lawn? Nope, I've never tried it. But you'd also need to teach the magpies where the food is. 200 magpies - at an average of 2 parents and 2 chicks (at this time of year) then that is a minimum of 50 separate magpie territories. That's a potentially huge area of effect for sick or poisoned magpies (leaving aside the injured ones). Especially given some of those territories would have no farmland in them and would be completely urban. Magpies don't leave their territories to forage...though insects move around, of course. I'd like to know what is causing these problems. Could you please let me know if they work it out? Cheers Sue.
@@mybackyard36 I didn't realize it would cover that large an area and that's really worrying. I'll let you know if I can find out any more about it - the sick/dead birds were taken to my vet and she was involved in the initial tests on the magpies that were found, so I can ask her about it and let you know what she says.
@@suzanne5781 I have never lived in an area with a large group of magpies but apparently they can share a territory and all defend it - I'd want to see it myself though. But the Australian Museum says it can happen and if you can't trust the Australian Museum... australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-magpie/ So I'm assuming each breeding pair has its own territory. Unless you have gangs about 😁 If that many dead and sick birds were found, there would presumably be a lot that weren't found. No rush but if you hear what happened, I'm really curious.
@@suzanne5781 hey Suzanne, so awful to hear that. As if they didn’t have enough troubles. I’m also quite concerned to know what happened, so just adding my voice to Murray’s saying please let us know
Hi Alan - thanks! Yep, I don't like to mention them by name (it summons their evil!) but here: www.bunnings.com.au/northcote-pottery-50-x-14cm-forrest-green-newport-water-bowl_p0139007 I was looking at getting a second in the same colour (blue) a couple of months ago but it seems only green is available at the moment. I even went to the local store to check and there was only green. I did a little playlist on setting mine up if you're interested - attaching the sticks, applying the silicone (a must for a glazed birdbath IMO) it's here if you're interested: ruclips.net/video/9CXQxRo4oJ0/видео.html Cheers Alan 😁
Good Idea🎉❗️
That is a magnificent background of bird calls.
Pretty special to see the chick trying out bathing techniques
Yep, a great soundtrack for this one. It'll get more coordinated in time - so less funny. I'm firming up on one male, two females and I suspect the male chick was taking a dip - but physically they're still identical.
Cheers Larri.
@ funny is always good. Watching them work it all out will be delightful. Here- neighbours playing wall penetrating jolly Christmas music😬. Murray’s world - bird songs. Ahhhhh 🪷🧘♂️🪷🐬
I see the Bar-Shouldered Dove doesn't have to drop it's wing to have a scratch. They're very pretty.
So it must be a leg length thing. But there again I haven't seen an ibis or a stork having a scratch and come to think of it neither a pelican 🤔
The chicks are growing up fast and learning everyday.
C1 loves a bath as much as mum. Was C3 just playing with the piece of core or was it intentionally softening it and then lost interest with it.
I don't trust that PHR. I believe it has a sinister M.O
Bubbling Trumpet CBC was doing his best at avian jazz.
I think he needs a mute.
Great stuff Murray.
See y'all next vid.
Cheers 👍😀🇦🇺
Yep, I thought the scratch was an interesting contrast to magpies, Blue-faces etc. I hadn't noticed a bird scratching like that before.
Oh - a contestant on Family Fortunes was asked to name a bird with a long neck. His response was "Naomi Campbell".
I think it came back with it wrapped around its claw and it picked it off and dropped it in the water - maybe it was just wiping the gum off its boot? Maybe softening, I suspect it might have tried to eat some given it must have visited the clump I put on the lawn near there.
Agree completely - the Rosella looked really shifty - very much looking to cause trouble.
Cheers John 👍😁👍
Thanks, mate 🦘🦘🦘🦘 VICTORIA, HERE.
Cheers Laurie, it's a great time of year - except for the heat 👍😁👍
That was a nice variety of birds enjoying a morning bath & preen, Murray!
We have an unfortunate situation here according to today's edition of the Camden Haven local newspaper - eight magpies found dead or dying on a front lawn in a nearby suburb, and in the last few months the local FAWNA has received calls for more than 25 sick peewees and 200 sick, injured or poisoned magpies.
The council is discouraging the use of pesticides on gardens although the cause of the bird deaths hasn't been determined (I never use them) and they're also suggesting leaving a damp towel on the lawn overnight to encourage armyworms to appear (I've never heard of this) & encouraging people to use alternative grasses from couch grass, which they say can throw off cyanide gasses.
I'm wondering if you've heard this about couch grass and if you've come across the damp-towel-on-the-lawn-overnight method? I haven't heard of either but am interested. So far "my" magpies all seem well thankfully.
Cheers, 🙂
Well, from some research it appears one couch hybrid can produce cyanide under some conditions and has been linked to the death of livestock. But gas? That seems unlikely. It also seems unlikely that there is enough of one particular couch - that's really a forage grass and not a lawn grass - to have an effect like that.
Damp towel on the lawn? Nope, I've never tried it. But you'd also need to teach the magpies where the food is.
200 magpies - at an average of 2 parents and 2 chicks (at this time of year) then that is a minimum of 50 separate magpie territories. That's a potentially huge area of effect for sick or poisoned magpies (leaving aside the injured ones). Especially given some of those territories would have no farmland in them and would be completely urban.
Magpies don't leave their territories to forage...though insects move around, of course.
I'd like to know what is causing these problems. Could you please let me know if they work it out?
Cheers Sue.
@@mybackyard36 I didn't realize it would cover that large an area and that's really worrying. I'll let you know if I can find out any more about it - the sick/dead birds were taken to my vet and she was involved in the initial tests on the magpies that were found, so I can ask her about it and let you know what she says.
@@suzanne5781 I have never lived in an area with a large group of magpies but apparently they can share a territory and all defend it - I'd want to see it myself though. But the Australian Museum says it can happen and if you can't trust the Australian Museum...
australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-magpie/
So I'm assuming each breeding pair has its own territory. Unless you have gangs about 😁
If that many dead and sick birds were found, there would presumably be a lot that weren't found.
No rush but if you hear what happened, I'm really curious.
@@suzanne5781 hey Suzanne, so awful to hear that. As if they didn’t have enough troubles. I’m also quite concerned to know what happened, so just adding my voice to Murray’s saying please let us know
Hi Murray , LOVE your vids, may I ask where you got your bird bath "bowl" from? Cheers !
Hi Alan - thanks! Yep, I don't like to mention them by name (it summons their evil!) but here:
www.bunnings.com.au/northcote-pottery-50-x-14cm-forrest-green-newport-water-bowl_p0139007
I was looking at getting a second in the same colour (blue) a couple of months ago but it seems only green is available at the moment. I even went to the local store to check and there was only green.
I did a little playlist on setting mine up if you're interested - attaching the sticks, applying the silicone (a must for a glazed birdbath IMO) it's here if you're interested:
ruclips.net/video/9CXQxRo4oJ0/видео.html
Cheers Alan 😁
Excellent, thanks so much !
@@alanfunt4013 No worries, any questions please ask and if I can help I will.
Cheers,
Murray.