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Argentine Ants - Photo Chris Green - DOC

The other day, walking with a bucket full of vegetable and fruit scraps, past the ancient plum tree, down to the compost bin, I noticed one of the main branches of the tree, almost eight inches thick  looked a bit rotten. It was so rotten that it might easily be broken off, so with an […]

Teaching Your Cockatiel to Step Up

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Step up, or up, or hop up, are all commands to get your pet cockatiel to hop up on to your finger. Birds have an inbuilt safety mechanism which stops them being knocked out of trees. When they sit in trees with moving branches, particularly in the wind, they could easily be knocked off their perch by a […]