I have murder on my mind. I’m anti-guns, and knives give me the heebie-jeebies … so I’ve resorted to chucking lemons out the window at the bloody brush turkeys. It hasn’t been terribly effective, because I’m a hopeless shot. When the sun rises I’ll have to troop out and retrieve them all.
I’ve had an unease relationship with the platoon of brush turkeys who’ve made themselves at home in our yard over the last few months. I think they were drawn by the chook food. Watching them perch on the fence like buzzards, then swoop in to gobble my girls’ food made me cross, but I was gritting my teeth and living with it.
The neighbours on the other hand … I hate to think what they’re saying behind closed doors. One called me a month or two back to let me know my chook had escaped into his yard. I was startled, but made my way over to retrieve her. I looked into his yard and said … “er, that’s not a chook”. Ah, city folk, didn’t know his australorp from his brush turkey.
Let me demonstrate …
But things took an ugly turn in my relationship with the brush turkey family when I discovered them building a nest in our backyard. We have a long, 5m wide strip of concrete along the back fence and it is now covered in all the top soil and tan bark from our garden. Totally covered. With a big pile against the fence. And no matter how many times we remove it, it returns the next day. Backyard Armageddon.
HELP!!!!! Does anyone know what we should do?
housegoeshome 
Get youself a nerf gun! Much more fun than lemons and the bullets are cheaper…
I used to shoot the bats in the palm trees with them. Didn’t bother the bats but
Felt good to be doing something about it.
Unfortunately the only way to get rid of the bats was to have the trees removed
(worked wonders for cockroachs too but thats another story….) so I have no
Practical advice, sorry
Hmmm I do have nerf water pistols – wonder if they would work??
So, brush turkeys are a pest? Sounds like you better find a different way than lemons to keep them away.
They are a total menace Lulu, and impossible to get rid of. Our garden is a disaster area.
I have no idea! So sorry, my bush skills are crap…
I am thinking about borrowing my nephew’s Nerf gun …
There was an article in the North Shore Times about this problem. Not sure there is much you can do. We had the same thing at my son’s old school. Now he has changed schools and there are rabbits everywhere instead. Kuringai Council won’t do anything about it – just suggest that residents build rabbit proof fences to keep them out of their yards. Where is Emperor Nasi Goreng when you need him?