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    Quote Originally Posted by Matador View Post
    A vet told me birds are the only things that can eat hot stuff and doesn't worry
    them .


    Cheers Graham
    Dunno about that. Mum put chilli sauce on the ends of a wooden book case to try and stop the dogs chewing it and they licked it off with glee.

    Tell her not to pick on your parrots Geoff.
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    Air rifle? What does parrot taste like, anyway???

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    Hi Master Splinter ,

    Some people say if you want to eat a parrot . You have to put the parrots in a
    saucepan and a rock when the rock is soft then you eat them . People in the
    bush say they are harder then a rock .

    Cheers Graham

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    Well placed small pieces of lead can be effective, but I've come up with other methods that seem to work reasonably well.
    We have shade sails over our vege patch, they don't seem to like going under that.
    For our orchard I have put up poles with bike wheels on top, these wheels have 3, aprox 300mm lengths of 90mm stormwater PVC pipe split lengthwise attached to them, so they perform like a horizontal windmill. These are placed about 3-4 metres apart, not 100% success but I would give it about 90%.

    Also the magpies we encourage around here seem to dislike the 28's and do attack them, this also seems to help.
    Even with all this they are still a major pest, anything we try to grow that is green they will strip until it is dead. We have no trouble with any other birds, just these little mongrels.
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    The oldtimers around used to make parrot pie, never tried it myself.
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    You use turkey stuffing for the Christmas turkey, chicken stuffing for the roast chook and Pollyfilla for roast parrot.
    Hugh

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    My late father in law said parrot made good fishing bait, and I believe a lot of our early settlers ate them.
    Bradford, I ran your bike wheel windmills idea past parrot enemy No one (PE#1) and she didn't seem very enthusiastic about them, I then floated the idea of going to a cattery and getting a bucket of cat poop and mixing it with water and spraying that on the grass, even less enthusiasm.
    Since we've been here our magpie flock has only been between 6 and 7 birds. When I used to chuck a handful of seed out they'd arrive and pick out the sort they liked and every now and then grab a parrot by the tail and swing it around, so the parrots became very wary of them. When I stopped feeding them they seemed to ignore each other.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matador View Post
    Hi Master Splinter ,

    Some people say if you want to eat a parrot . You have to put the parrots in a
    saucepan and a rock when the rock is soft then you eat them . People in the
    bush say they are harder then a rock .

    Cheers Graham
    I think the recipe goes " put parrot and boot in pot. Cover with water boil forever. When boot is soft chuck parrot away and eat boot."

    In an effort to find out what sort of parrot you were talking about I found this. Port Lincoln or 28 Parrot Control

    Must be a pest if there is an industry around getting rid of them. Pretty things though.
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    Some sort of bird scarer is needed.

    You can purchase a large hawk, falcon etc usually from a farm produce place - they are "floated" from a pole and turn in the breeze.

    Apart from putting up with it it's about the best I can think of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by a duke View Post
    you use turkey stuffing for the christmas turkey, chicken stuffing for the roast chook and pollyfilla for roast parrot.
    groan
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    Scare the birds and water the lawn with a motion control water sprayer / scarecrow

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    Good morning all.

    Pacman, that water scarecrow will bear further investigation looks like it may be a winner, thanks for the link.
    TL there's no doubt they are pretty. They are members of the ring neck family ( they need their effing necks rung) The 28 and Port Lincoln are two seperate members of that family but they cross breed where their territories meet and thats what we've got here.
    The suspended hawk definately doesn't work with them, they ignore it after a few minutes.
    Thanks for the suggestions.

    Geoff.

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    Tried fishing line?

    On Rottnest Island (and now several other places) they run fans of fishing line from the eaves of the local restaurant to pegs in the ground to discourage sea gulls - and it works. I know of few birds that are more agressive in search of a free feed than gulls (No. 1 are Indian Mynahs which will attack people with food) and this keeps them out of the food service areas - they don't like flying into some sort of giant spider web.

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    Toyota uses this method over the new car parking area to deter gulls. Seems to work.

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    Thanks Bsrlee,
    I'll give that a go, I've got miles of fishing line.
    Regards,
    Geoff.

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