I mentioned this recently as a comment on another thread, but thought I would post it here.
A few years ago I was in a cp at Alice Springs and had these noisy birds settling down for the night in tree branches above our RV. As well as noise deposits from above were another likely scenario as the branches extended over our caravan.
Another traveller there told me to come out when it was dark and to shine a torch up at them, which worked, they don't like the light and they went to another tree some distance away. I have also seen this done by another traveller at a Broken Hill cp.
Worth remembering.....
-- Edited by Vic41 on Friday 30th of May 2014 10:12:04 PM
Corellas are even worse with their noise! I feel sorry for people who live in the places where those noisy screeching birds are in plague proportions, at least we can move on.
We have Corellas that flock around our neighbourhood. Yes they are very noisy, but even worse, they like to chew things. Luckily we haven't had any damage done, but back when everyone had tall (30M) antenna masts here, they used to chew the coax cables right up the top of the mast. They also like to chew on the green pine cones on a neighbours tree, which they sometimes drop on the tin roof of my shed when they fly over. Makes a pretty big bang.
Reminds me of the cp's at Kapunda and Nuriootpa in SA Troopy, some of the sites had large pine trees above them and the chewed off nuts fell onto any RV unfortunate enough to be parked under them.
-- Edited by Vic41 on Monday 2nd of June 2014 01:30:17 AM
Just spent a week at Noosa River CP - heaps of Corellas all over the park during the day - constant noise until sundown, and starts again after dawn - but hey, a much more pleasant sound than the b....y dozens of crows that squawk all day around our house !
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Wondering about ShortNorth ? - Short North is the railwayman's nickname for the NSWGR main line between Sydney and Newcastle
I stayed at a caravan park near the Murray River where the trees were full with the noisy buggers.
The caravan park owner came down just before dusk with a 44 gallon drum on the back of his ute and he beat it with a large piece of steel for about 5 minutes.
The corellas all took off for a new roosting area away from the noise.
It worked a treat & had to rely on the kookaburras to wake us up the next morning.
Cheers - John
A few years ago I was in a cp at Alice Springs and had these noisy birds settling down for the night in tree branches above our RV. As well as noise deposits from above were another likely scenario as the branches extended over our caravan.
An old powder monkey told me when I was a young powder monkey of how he solved a C.O C. K. atoo problem once. Under the roost tree he bored 10 holes with a post hole digger. He placed a stick of gelignite in each hole all linked by detonating cord. He filled each hole with 3/4 inch gravel screenings and pushed the plunger well after dark. Next morning Not a leaf left on the tree or a whole C.O.C.Ky to be found .plenty of feathers though. Not PC nowadays
Pete
-- Edited by Cyclops on Sunday 5th of August 2018 05:12:28 PM
