Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

[AntiqueB]

Perhaps they are grown chicks from clutches past?

 

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'Perhaps they are grown chicks from clutches past?'

I've been thinking about this, Antique. There are a dozen or twenty emus that a members of the tame-wild club. Some of them get a little less tame while away, but some remain remarkably tame. Felicity walked right up to me for a pat after four-and-a-half years away.

 

[Finchbreeder]

Some academics in Aust are not exactly friendly either. It's all "my reputation is more important than yours"
But sometimes - like in my daughters case - once you get out in the real world, then real world knowledge makes your life easier so you acknowledge and embrace it.
That's what she is doing in Qld.
In Aust the horses are actually "ferals" that got loose, or were released.
We also have lots of feral camels on the edges of the desert here.
Neither of these are near where I am - approx 1000kms north of these lovely emus.

 

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'In Aust the horses are actually "ferals" that got loose, or were released.'
Correct. Horses are not native to Australia

'We also have lots of feral camels on the edges of the desert here.'
You don't have to reveal your location. But it seems you are in Western Australia, and in woodwardi territory.

 

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BULLETIN

Supreme Emu will be off the air for two or three weeks -- new computer!

Feel free to post any emu-related material you want to.

And the brumbies were at the house yesterday, but I didn't get a photo

 

[Finchbreeder]

Chamelauciaum territory.
Where the Red Tailed blacks visit regularly, but the emus keep further in from the coast than my place. Also have resident blue tounge Lizard family, the striped not the bobtail ones. The roos hang round the edges of town, but not close to me as I am within a couple of kms of the coast.

 

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I am back. Shall update in coming days.

Antique,. we need names for the male and female of the new breeding-pair

SE

 

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In the last fortnight, four ‘units’ have passed through:

The Cheeky Chicks

Offsider Emu

Undersized Emu and her (ever shy) consort

And a breeding-pair (we assume) that turned up on the first day. Let’s start with them:



the male is a lovely big sandy-colored bird. We guess it hasn’t been here; but it’s inquisitive, and walks across the backyard. We have not had a good look at the female because she only sneaks up ‘from the far side,’ and won’t allow us close at all.



Most interesting, though, is that although this pair – it’s just a month to Big Green Eggs Day – turns up at very first light for their wheat, after they eat it, they leave. Thus, over about ten days, just the one appearance each day: eat and leave!

Here is the male:

https://vimeo.com/1094292974/0487c4cfcc?ts=8308&share=copy

 

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https://vimeo.com/1089578114/a4c76b3eeb?ts=0&share=copy

This is the first video of the breeding-pair. So, you see the big sandy male, his consort down on the tree line . . . and Random Bird (getting a bit of wheat).

 

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And Limpy Chick? Well, we don’t know. He may turn up in the garden with his chicks right after hatch. He may turn up for the plum season. We may never see him again (although that’s unlikely).

Or he might not even be sitting quietly in the bush at all.