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Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 02 Aug 2019, 09:13
by noah.till
My aviarys are under a stand of small she oak pines, a life saver in summer

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 02 Aug 2019, 09:40
by finchbreeder
If you have the space, plant a lilac tree. Fast growing and deciduous. WIN Win and the red tail blacks come and eat the seeds out of the berries. Which is a pleasure to watch, and even to listen too.
LML

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 02 Aug 2019, 09:50
by Brisbane_Finches_333
What about sulphur crested cockatoos?

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 02 Aug 2019, 09:50
by noah.till
finchbreeder wrote: 02 Aug 2019, 09:40 If you have the space, plant a lilac tree. Fast growing and deciduous. WIN Win and the red tail blacks come and eat the seeds out of the berries. Which is a pleasure to watch, and even to listen too.
LML
Unfortunately I'm already flat out trying to get pine needles of the roof so the rain runs off

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 21:39
by Brisbane_Finches_333
finchbreeder wrote: 02 Aug 2019, 09:40 If you have the space, plant a lilac tree. Fast growing and deciduous. WIN Win and the red tail blacks come and eat the seeds out of the berries. Which is a pleasure to watch, and even to listen too.
LML
A lilac tree? You mean, like, those petite little pink flowering trees in cottage gardens?? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/imag ... HK4UtHZGub

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 23:06
by finchbreeder
Common name Cape Lilac or White Cedar Scientific Name Melia azedarach - This common tree of gardens and road verges is actually a native of the Kimberley area of Western Australia but has become naturalised in urban areas. It produces sprays of lilac flowers and masses of hard yellow berries.
We don't have Sulphur cresteds living wild on this side of the country. We have Little Corellas by the thousands, Galahs by the hundreds, and Red, white and yellow tail Blacks by the dozen.
LML

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 09:30
by Brisbane_Finches_333
We have yellow tailed blacks, sulphurs, little and long billed corellas and galahs. Living in the suburbs, I set up a birdfeeder since the neighbours excessively cut down trees and I get Sulphurs by the dozen, a pair of Galahs, lorikeets, crested pigeons, turtledoves and the occasional corella, rosella or escaped Alexandrine Parrot.

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 09:32
by Brisbane_Finches_333
Yellow tails are in the hinterlands and the sunshine coasts; red tails are about 7hrs north in rockhampton. There you see large flocks of them in the suburbs feeding on the sheoak trees

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 06 Aug 2019, 14:27
by noah.till
We get both in Highfields

Re: Hot weather.

Posted: 07 Aug 2019, 07:22
by Tiaris
White Cedar is also native to areas on the eastern half of oz.