Hi All, When we moved to Northern NSW a couple of years ago, we found a fantastic house in a reserve that prohibited any cat and dog ownership. What particularly sold us on this house was the nesting pair of Bush Stone Curlews in the front garden and for our first summer here we delighted in our expanding Stone Curlew family. It was a dry summer and our yard seemed to have just the right combination of shelter and water to satisfy a Stone Curlew family’s whims. Well…. Fast forward to this summer. We have had lots of rain. The Stone Curlews have chosen to run their chicks around our surrounding wetlands instead of our garden. In their place, a pair of Brush Turkeys have decided to use our garden mulch to mound on the side of our driveway. At first I thought that we wouldn’t choose to fight this battle for fear of complete and dire defeat at the hands of feathered marauders. Six weeks in and the situation has changed. As much as we try to tidy up and keep our place in some sort of order, it gets trashed again by our squatter Scrub Turkeys. Our fight tactics have been as colourful and inventive as the birds themselves, to the point where they now have their own blog! http://scrubturkeychronicles.blogspot.com/ So if any of you want to watch our engaged battle with Brush Turkeys or even participate in the blog by sharing your own experiences with them, please join me and follow the journey of Mr & Mrs Turd and, if they last that long, their future turdlets! All contributions welcome!!! Cheers, Inger
Inger Vandyke
Professional Wildlife Photographer and Writer Expedition Leader – Heard Island Expedition (3 November – 7 December, 2011) Assistant Publicity Officer – Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association (SOSSA)
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