Semi-birding matters (RE wasps & spiders, ostriches)

["Geoffrey Dabb" <>]

Unless you accidentally swallow a lot of them, I suppose, Frank?  Seriously - I am sure Martin will tell us about the yellowjackets getting into the open Coke cans at picnics.

 

On a slightly different subject, I recently found in an old book this picture of a Port Augusta ostrich farm in 1887 when it must have been at its height.  It was these birds that, when released not long after that, gave rise to the feral population that is responsible for the Ostrich [I = introduced] standing proudly and tickably,  if a little annoyingly, at the head of the Australian bird list (Christidis & Boles 1994).