Well, I've spent waaaay too much time watching you and your birds in several of the videos. Very enjoyable to share that with you and I'm going to go back and look some more later on.

I'd like to know more about your location, which certainly appears to be a rainforest environment.

By the way, any caterpillars that I happen to find are always tossed to the birds, but I figure they can darned well dig for the grubs on their own! My soil is hard, red clay and I can't take a shovel to it.

G'day rhizo 1
I have a small shack that has a bushland and creek setting that supports heaps of birds and other wildlife including many Kangaroos and at night I let Brushtailed Possums visit my lounge room for a feed on my lap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFuWbRYLYq0
Wild Brushtail Possum lobs in for a snack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuUtcQF7KEA
Wild Possum lazily munches on a feed,as we sit in me recliner
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I've just found out that if I open GardenWeb using my Firefox and paste in the youtube links, they don't work.
But if I open GardenWeb using my Internet Explorer they do work.
I hate this type of thing because I am hopeless at PC stuff.
If any one has problems then they can go to my youtube videos via frozzytoobz and search for them there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVhOVf0I3iU
Wild Grey Shrike-Thrush.Shrikey supervises his curl grub dinner!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUuMxDXFo8&feature=related DON'T poison Curl Grubs.Hand feed them alive to birds(pt1/2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kX2b14L5s&feature=related
DON'T poison Curl Grubs.Hand feed them alive to birds(pt2/2)

Why don't the links become clickable after they are posted in the message.

G'day rhizo 1, I forgot to say that where I am digging with Shrikey is on top of a solid foundation of brick hard clay. It's also next to a massive Spotted Gum Tree that also turns the ground to a bone dry concrete hard surface.
I have just built over it with my own made up dirt.But it's nearly killed me doing it because I aint very healthy.
I mention my pain in the video, and it's a fair dinkum nightmare, 24/7 and a scale of about 8 out of 10.
I'm suffering from a completely stuffed up pancreas (which was on a scale of 9 out of 10) which was removed a few years ago, leaving only a small portion to stop me being diabetic. The result is as horrendously painful as was the wretched disease.
Mucking about with Shrikey and other birds and wildlife is good therapy because I can't get out much anymore.
It's my only alternative to suicide.
I wish that any worse enemies I might have would suffer from Chronic Pancreatitis, because I know of nothing to compare the horror of CP. CP feels as if there are rats with red hot teeth devouring your insides while plugged into an electric socket.
Seeyalater rhizo 1, I hope you do enjoy the frozzytoobz videos.

I'm officially hooked on the videos. What an incredible assortment of wildlife. That one male kangaroo looked huge...how big is he?

I'm so sorry about your illness. Non-stop pain is a terrible thing to have to live with. I can't imagine.

What an incredible assortment of wildlife. That one male kangaroo looked huge...how big is he?

G'day rhizo,.,He's a full grown Eastern Grey,massively powerful.85 to 95 kg
When he stands tall his eyes are above mine.

I don't muck about with him when he snorts at me and he shows any signs of not wanting me to continue scratching his body or head(especially when his does are around)
He could kill me in a second with one kick.
PS Our Red Kangaroos that live in the deserts and outback Aussie are even bigger