At 10:21 PM 4/10/2003 +1000, you wrote:
Colin R wrote of his problems with criminal Brush Turkeys and the warning:
"Please don't BOTHER to feed the animals - THEY'LL BLOODY HELP
THEMSELVES"!!!"
Reminds me of stopping in one of the NPs between Townsville and Ayr (can't
remember which one) in 1993 and unloading the car to get at the spare tyre
as I had a flat. My wife, came to watch as an interested spectator - with
no guard, by the time I'd changed the tyre, the turkeys (or wafer bottoms as
we called them) had been into the food box and had a whole 1kg fruit cake!
Still, at least they don't come swooping down to take the food off your
plate a la Kookaburra/sausage theft - that would be quite alarming!
Cheers
Tom Wilson
I remember up in Kakadu sitting at a table next to this guy about
to eat his piece of bread and a Black Kite landed on the table. With
feathers going everywhere it snatched the bread from him and flew
off. I have also seen Emus nick Mars bars from luggage at Mambray Creek
in SA.
Cheers,
Peter.
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