What an amazing thread to find in the Water Gardens Forum. But what caught my eye was the reference to "Triton Cockatoo". I've never heard that before but have grown up with cockatoos always around me. Small flocks come into my garden, they can be a bit destructive, they like chewing up irrigation lines to get water.
Hungry Fish,or so they think!!!
Years back I use to talk to a lady from Perth,who finally move to the border of Tasmania,she told me the farmers use to shoot them,because they destroyed there crops,kind of like our crows here,you can walk out into the mall parking lots and find crows all over the cars,some picking the dried bugs off the windshields.
They're protected by law, but down south they gather in flocks of thousands and descend on fields of cereals. They pull the germinating softened grains out and eat them. Whilst it's illegal to harm them they're clandestinely shot. The 'code' expression for this was to say "it snowed at so and so's place." A reference to the white of dead birds on the ground. They've also moved into residential areas and chew up timber in houses causing a lot of damage. Some people feed them, causing great arguments in communities. I'm fortunate in only having very minor damage at my place, mainly eating my mangoes.
Tropicman - they are all so beautiful and I just love your black cat. We had black cats when I was growing up. The last one I had had feline leuk so he had to be put down to protect my other cats, who ironically did not have it. That was in 2001 - I haven't had one since.
Another thing that I have wanted, since I was a small child was the old fashioned conservatory. There is a house for sale in the next town over from me that has a very nice large greenhouse coming off the side- I'd love to buy it and turn it into my conservatory, complete with cockatoos and macaws. Not something I can do at this time - but I can dream.
Love your pictures. Thanks for posting them.
TB,its a shame they have to snow days,but if there is no other way to save there crops!
Carolyn,I'd love to have your dream of a very large greenhouse so I could let the birds have there way of life like in the wild with no cages,wouldn't that be something!!!
Guy in Arkansas that does just that.
http://www.exoticrainforest.com/
Tropicman - That's it! That is exactly what I want - complete with birds flying, orchids, a small pond in the corner - right down to the white furniture! Just wonderful!
I have bookmarked the link you sent so I can look over and over. Thanks for sending the link on!
Carolyn
My Pleasure!
I believe sometime yrs ago I traded plants with a Alice Harris,that lives In Athens,I believe she was putting up an old conservatory,by chance do you know her or seen her conservatory?
Tropicman -
No, I have not, however I graduated with a Harris and her mother owned the local fruit stand. They sold awhile ago. It was all very nice with a bake shop in it and everything. I am wondering she would be the same lady. Not sure what her first name would have been.
Might be,But I think this one was teacher or a writer,that retired and bought this farm house
and had bought and moved and restored this old conservatory.
I wish I could remember more,I think I traded for my very first banana from her,heck getting old the mind is the second to go,body first!!!!
I don't recall a woman that taught with the name of Harris. But we are several small villages all together - so she could have lived in Athens, but taught elsewhere.
I think she retired in Philly and move to Athens,not sure if she came from there or just moved there when she retired.