Tempting tasty treat Tuesday.
We got out for a little while this morning to buy a couple of necessary items at Bunnings (hardware for non-Aussies) which also allowed me to indulge my lifetime passion and take a few shots of some trains at two of Brisbane’s quietest stations.
While I was waiting for one train on a pedestrian over bridge, I was suddenly joined by this local gentleman with a packet of kangaroo mince which apparently he regularly feeds the Pied Butcherbirds and Magpies. By the numbers arriving all of a sudden, he is well known and quite popular.
He told me that he only feeds them kangaroo, especially the Magpies because the ordinary beef mince is too high in cholesterol and it makes them sick. Or worse. Well, I do know kangaroo is very lean but maybe our bird experts can comment on the veracity of the cholesterol threat...for Magpies that is. We know of course it is not good when high for humans.
Clayfield, Brisbane.
Tempting tasty treat Tuesday.
We got out for a little while this morning to buy a couple of necessary items at Bunnings (hardware for non-Aussies) which also allowed me to indulge my lifetime passion and take a few shots of some trains at two of Brisbane’s quietest stations.
While I was waiting for one train on a pedestrian over bridge, I was suddenly joined by this local gentleman with a packet of kangaroo mince which apparently he regularly feeds the Pied Butcherbirds and Magpies. By the numbers arriving all of a sudden, he is well known and quite popular.
He told me that he only feeds them kangaroo, especially the Magpies because the ordinary beef mince is too high in cholesterol and it makes them sick. Or worse. Well, I do know kangaroo is very lean but maybe our bird experts can comment on the veracity of the cholesterol threat...for Magpies that is. We know of course it is not good when high for humans.
Clayfield, Brisbane.