It's for the birds!

[Lynne]

I first heard of galahs when I read a book called Runaway Girl, about a young girl in Australia that lived in the outback for awhile. She passed as a boy and had all kinds of adventures.

Sounds like a good book. I fell in love with how beautiful those birds are.

 

[ozentity]

Sounds like a good book. I fell in love with how beautiful those birds are.

They are very common here, in some parts they are unprotected because they damage crops and are shot.

 

[Paulm]

If you put out seed where I am you get galahs and bigger white cockatoos that start eating your house so I don't feed them. No squirrels but we get possums wrecking the ceiling but they are silly coming into a jack russells yard.

i get opossums in the yard, they are similar to your possum, but with a hairless tail, (and yours probably has 14 ways of killing a man....lol.....). if my dogs corner them up, i just grab them by the tail and place them back over the fence. cool animals, the most destructive critters i get are the squirrels and raccoons.

 

[ozentity]

and yours probably has 14 ways of killing a man....lol.....).

Lol, they are not usually agro but I remember when I was a teen and some mates and I were having a beer in the park a really big brushtail possum jumped or fell from the tree onto one guy's head and did some damage. We rolled around laughing in true caring teenage fashion, lol.

 

[Lynne]

They are very common here, in some parts they are unprotected because they damage crops and are shot.

Awe thats awful. They are too beautiful to kill.

 

[ozentity]

Awe thats awful. They are too beautiful to kill.

They are, we had one when I was young that could say quite a few words. I know they have to make a living but a lot of old time farmers here kill any native wildlife that eats crops and pasture such as kangaroos. I do hunt but only introduced pests like rabbits, foxes and pigs which destroy the ecosystem.

 

[Lynne]

They are, we had one when I was young that could say quite a few words. I know they have to make a living but a lot of old time farmers here kill any native wildlife that eats crops and pasture such as kangaroos. I do hunt but only introduced pests like rabbits, foxes and pigs which destroy the ecosystem.

I think as long as we only kill what we need to eat or survive, it is in line with nature. You are a good caretaker of the land