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stripped olives [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

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Subject: stripped olives [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]
From: Robin Hide <>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 14:38:30 +1000
An olive tree in a neighbouring street (Coroboree Park) was fully netted a week or so ago.

Robin Hide


Perkins, Harvey wrote:
A friend in Lyneham has just told me that he has lost his entire crop of olives (just a single tree I think) and wonders if it could be due to currawongs.

"I have been observing my ripening olives over the last few weeks, but noticed a couple of days ago that the tree had been stripped. Couldn't believe it, as it has never happened before, and was rather upset about it. First I thought perhaps someone had come and picked them and then I thought birds. I have currawongs hanging around here as though they own the place and you once told me, after I had mentioned to you that they were taking all my feijoa, that that was known to be happening in Canberra. You gave me a reference to it I believe in a local bird publication. Is there any published or other evidence that local birds can do the same with olives?"

Anyone else out there had problems with currawongs taking their olives?

Harvey


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