Caravan parks like their guests to be comfortable and so it was quickly deemed unacceptable that some Queensland campers were being disturbed by lorikeet noise and ‘bombed’ by lorikeet faeces. The solution, according to Fraser Coast Regional Council, was to fell the 10 pine trees at the Scarness Beach Caravan Park where the birds liked to hang out.
After councillors last week voted 6-5 to spend $10,000 taking the action, the chainsaws arrived yesterday to make sure caravanners were safe from the bird droppings.
Despite a brief protest from one man, the trees quickly came down.
One caravanner, David Peel, from New South Wales told the Fraser Coast Chronicle that the lorikeet noise did not bother him, but the faeces stuck on top of his caravan did.
“It gets stuck on the roof and the solar panels and if you don’t clean it off it dries and lifts the paint,” he told the newspaper. “The birds don’t worry me,”
He said each afternoon a group of campers “grabbed a beer to watch the bird show”.
What other type of STUPID response would you expect from a Council !! I am surprised that they did not initiate an expensive Investigation, into the cost of getting all the Lorikeets Toilet Trained, !! –And to Mr David Peel ,, maybe if you don’t like the Lorikeet Crap, Maybe you should Not go where the Lorikeets congregate, !! — or sell your van so you can then travel and stay in Lorikeet proof Motels,
the campers need to toughen up and get over it! . . . i guess i won’t be staying at that caravan park! . . .
$10,000 to placate a couple of winging campers. If they are that disturbed by what birds in nature do in trees then perhaps they should avoid trees. Who was the moron that authorized that ?
If you don’t like what nature offers maybe it is time to stay home.
some folk whinge about anything
I remember the old bush saying if it moves shoot it
if it stands in the way chop it down
Im surprised “campers” would complain of such. Most campers such as myself appreciate the outdoors & wildlife and would not back cutting down trees for the sake of a bit of poo. Its probably more the case that the caravan park owners enforced it!
There was no need to cut down the trees which obviously had been there for a long time providing much needed shade from the sun.
To move on the lorikeets if needed you use this method which I first used as a kid back in the early 60 ‘s.
Remember those big rubber hammers that were used to change car tyres back in those days, well they are still available.
Get one or two and with a friend just after dark when the birds are settling down, belt the trunk of the tree with the rubber hammer. This will not hurt the tree but will send vibrations up the trunk to the branches and through the feet of the birds. They get startled and fly away but will come back again to roost. When the settle down again, repeat and repeat again and again for 2-3 nights. They get no sleep and by the end of the 2-3rd night they will find another area to roost.
Works every time, tree is not harmed but someone else is going to be unhappy when the birds roost elsewhere.
By the way, I was introduce to this up in Cairns when flying foxes camped in trees next to our house.
Old bloke, who was a neighbour, paid us kids a shilling a day to bash the trees with rubber hammers. Result, that after 3 days the flying foxes left for better, quieter areas.
Works every time.
What the hell is wrong with people i love having the birds around we used to give them fruit loaf and honey they would even fly in the van it was beautiful LOVE THE WILD LIFE IF YOU DON’T STAY HOME OR IN THE CITY
IN WA the galahs make anoise at night the white Cockatoos do too, in Kalbarri caravn Park they let off a shotgun noise to stop them roosting over the park or you could spread a wide shade cloth out unde rthe trees or give the trees a jolt like they do to get olives off the trees