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Hi Birders,
Following on from my comments about the damage
Brush Turkeys can do to gardens compared to the damage Blackbirds do in
Melbourne gardens when digging up the plants, on 27 September Laurance Knight
said "Hmmm if you have problems witrh Brush Turkeys you obviously have the wrong
sort of garden"!
Wrong Laurie, fortunately I live in an as yet Brush
Turkey free zone, where in addition to growing some natives, I can actually have
lawn, roses, azaleas and camelias too in my garden. But as a recently retired
public servant who headed up the Agency on the NSW Central Coast whose job was
to make some response to the public about attacking Magpies, swooping Masked
Lapwings (particularly in retirement villages and the Central Coast is the
retirement capital of Australia), and destructive Brush Turkeys, it was more
than my job was worth to respond to some irrate ratepayer/voter/gardener, whose
garden had been invaded by the expanding Brush Turkey population of the Central
Coast, by telling him/her that "if you have a problem with Brush Turkeys you
obviously have the wrong sort of garden!!"
Instead we made sympathetic noises, gave them a
pamphlet (with the local MP's photograph on it) that explained all the
techniques one could use to mimimise the impact on the garden caused by those
pesky turkeys. One good thing about my retirement is that I no longer have to
utilised my extensive conflict resolution skills that I developed from dealing
with those irate & irrational ratepayer/voter/gardeners who are generally
middle aged/retired men like myself, whose ordered lives and immaculate gardens
and lawns had been incorporated into some dominant male Brush Turkey's
territory. Blackbirds are much more easier to deal with!
Alan Morris.
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