It's all about the birds
I mentioned to Michael, but I’ll inflict this on all of you. The White Cedar is a favoured food of the western NSW population of Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. I used to visit Bourke each winter just for the spectacle. If you left it too late there would not be a single fruiting W Cedar anywhere in … Read more
It is yet another irony that this scenic and interesting place is now associated by most Australians only with the sad and dramatic events of recent days. I made a short visit there last October driving back to Canberra from Melbourne. Martin Butterfield had suggested as a vantage point for shorebirds a spot beside the … Read more
–effectively shaping the tree to be quite compact. Despite it being very ornamental, with light green leaves, having delightfully scented lilac flowers in spring, being covered in yellow or orange berries, and almost always with birds in it, White Cedars are a very high maintenance proposition. They are deciduous, shed twigs, dead leaves and berries … Read more
White Cedars (Melia azedarach) are favourites of our local Currawong regurgitators, fouling every birdbath and fishpond in the garden Even water in house gutters, sprouting when they dry a sign that it’s time to clean th out. White Cedars (Persian lilacs), and we have one just outside the kitchen window, a spreading shady variety called … Read more
Our Grey Butcherbirds have for a number of years, particularly when raising young, visited for a hand out, generally a bit of mincemeat which they catch when it is tossed to them Often they park their reward in a forked tree branch and sit watching it, and after a minute or two, they regurgitate a … Read more