Ok Wagga, you have to go for a drive. The Cockatoo's are eating the Sturt Mall. I am serious and there are holes and bits missing everywhere. You must click on the first photo and view the pillar on the right. It got chopped off unless you click on the picture. I am struggling to …
Ok Wagga, you have to go for a drive. The Cockatoo’s are eating the Sturt Mall. I am serious and there are holes and bits missing everywhere. You must click on the first photo and view the pillar on the right. It got chopped off unless you click on the picture. I am struggling to comprehend this, thus a dedicated blog post was needed.
Sorry I only had my new iphone with me when I went to see it and I couldn’t work out how to zoom in with it (help!), so click on the photo if you want a better look. You must look above Sportsgirl (second photo) as there is an actual hole right at the very top (again, I wished I could have zoomed in) where the birds can physically get inside it! OMG.
For those that don’t live in Wagga, this is one of our big shopping malls with Coles, KMart and heaps of specialty stores. The streets below are all covered in the white stuff they have picked off.
My husband said yesterday he could actually hear the crunching when standing underneath. He asked someone what does management propose to do, and there was no answer because they simply don’t know what to do (other than knock the birds off!).
What is the world coming to when birds are eating our buildings???
Katrina 😉
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Comments
Natasha Burns
Hey did you ever see on ACA or Today TOnight, one of those shows, how cockies were eating at a house? they ate the fence and basically terrorised the owners. THey ate through metal too, it was crazy!
Kristine at The Painted Hive
Hi Katrina. I'm a new blogger and just stumbled across your beautiful site – you have a lovely home. I live in outer Melbourne and there are cockatoos everywhere here. They eat the native cherry trees in our backyard and drop seeds on my dogs little kennel – they haven't started trying to eat that yet at least though my poor pooch doesn't know what to make of it. Kristine.
http://thepaintedhive.blogspot.com.
Janine Marshall
Oh my goodness Katrina,
I enlarged the first photo and couldn't believe they made such a mess of the pillar. I don't know what you do about this….there's got to be something. Not an expert by any stretch of the imagination but I would think that someone needs to go back and see why there is such an influx of birds, has their habitat been destroyed and why are they so darn hungry that they have to start eating the buildings? Here in the local mall they planted these trees and the birds would flock to them, hundreds of them and they would have pooh everywhere and the stench when it rained was disgusting, eventually, after trying so many things they had to pull the trees out. Nobody misses the trees I'm sure and especially the pooh you had to try and walk around or tiptoe through. YUCK!!!! Enjoy the rest of your day!
Take care
Janine
XXOO
Tassie
Sarah
We had a heap of cockies hanging around this new place when we moved in & I was tempted to start feeding them but my friend told me it wasn't a good idea because when they dont get food they start to eat things like the wood & so forth on the house….suffice to say we never fed them!
I would have thought centre management or the local council would have done something about them eating the building.
~S~
Julie-Ann
That is amazing. I have never heard of anything like it. Maybe it's just Eastern States Cockatoos that eat buildings:) You would think the centre management would be a bit more concerned. The value of the building must be affected by this.
Interesting blog.
By the way when you work out how to zoom on your iphone – teach me:)
Sue
Maybe there is lead in the paint, and they might die off eventually!! No, I dont mean that, but I know how annoying birds can be. My friend has a huge pigeon problem at her home, and surrounding neighbours.They have had to do something to lower the population, lets just say!
chair up
Good grief (I enlarged that first picture) what a mess. I used to drop the kids at school on a Monday and drive straight to Sturt Mall. I can't imagine buying something from Sportsgirl and having to wash cockatoo poo off it!!! Can't say I'm a fan of the millions of birds here in Oz, noisy blimin' things.
Angex
Kerri
I've heard of them eating timber door frames and windows, but never shopping centres! We have a lot of cockatoos here but have never had a problem. Maybe they've lost habitat? That's the only explanation I can think of. Bizarre!
K x
Alison
OMG what a mess!!
Surely the council can get rid of them somehow. It is ridiculous that the birds have more rights than we do!!!
Alison
Mrs B
Amazing post Katrina, I had no idea the damage that can be done by birds. To think that we worry about a few Indian miners that get into our roof at breeding season!
You know I awarded you a blog award…I love coming here to visit and I agree with the other poster, you have such a beautiful home and your boys room are stunning (please put them in a magazine!!!)
Mrs B xx
Amanda
What destructive little creatures!!! 🙂