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Lure of the Weed

To: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Subject: Lure of the Weed
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:04:51 +1000
They are also hard at work with these plants on the Northside.  

This is the level of tillage they have created in a paddock in the Snow Gums area below Aranda Bushland.





On 13 June 2014 16:59, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

The thousands of white cockatoos around south Canberra at the moment are feeding on capeweed  Arctotheca calendula (right) and also on a similar flatweed that lacks the silvery undersides (3 plants on left). Recent conditions have produced  a lush crop of both these. In each case the plant is uprooted and the fleshy root eaten completely.  Large numbers (presumably the same birds) also spend periods foraging for fallen acorns under the street pin-oaks.  In due course they will no doubt work through the seasonal menu, including cedar cones, which make a fine thump on a metal roof.

 


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