Another piece to the puzzle .

[Rusty2]

Hello everyone ,
Only until today did I understand why these creature's tear down tree's or snap them off at unusual point's . I "assumed" that these awsome brute's had a temper to match there size and that it must have been a display of aggression or territory . But I have a completely different view now .
While out in the stick's today , I came upon a stand of "wattle's" . As I casually drove buy , I noticed some of them were snapped . Bingo . Yowie's . After having a closer look , I realised that these beautiful creature's were just after food . In each broken off tree , there were holes where witchetty grubs had been . Having chopped up alot of wattle in my time , I remembered the sometimes huge grub's that were inside and they are apparently high in protein .
There's some pretty large tree's in this photo and all are snapped or broken off . Wind I thought . But some lay east , west , south ....random . Black cokatoo's are veracious feeder's and will tear apart a tree to get to a grub . But "I" beleive this work was done by our friend's . I don't know of any other animal that could do it .......................

YOU BE THE JUDGE Rusty2............... 2.6mb file

[Yowie88]

Hi Rusty;

The pic on the bottom left tells me that it cannot be wind for two possible reasons;

1) The snapped tree is protected by ther trees, acting like a wind break.
2) The is an indentical sized tree right next to it which is not broken.

Very interesting pics.

BTW welocme to the forum

[Rusty2]

Hi Rusty;

The pic on the bottom left tells me that it cannot be wind for two possible reasons;

1) The snapped tree is protected by ther trees, acting like a wind break.
2) The is an indentical sized tree right next to it which is not broken.

Very interesting pics.

BTW welocme to the forum

Hi Yowie 88 and thank's , yeah , I think your right . Never took any notice before . Now I take notice of anything unusual .

Cheer's Rusty2...................

[Jim Hocking]

Hi Rusty;

The pic on the bottom left tells me that it cannot be wind for two possible reasons;

1) The snapped tree is protected by ther trees, acting like a wind break.
2) The is an indentical sized tree right next to it which is not broken.

Very interesting pics.

BTW welocme to the forum

Hi Yowie 88 and Rusty
I like your thinking but if it is the only tree damaged in the patch, it may have been the only one with a Grub. Depending on the wind strength trees only start to fall one at a time. not next to one another but at random. The weakest section of a wire fence is the bit that lets go, chain links the same.

The tree with the break up high ( bit hard to tell without a reference ) looks a bit spindly to carry any weight. So I would guess it was just a grub. Assume the same with the height, Our mates would just push it over or break it lower down.
Maybe wrong just based on your photo's, no real damage as pulling apart or gnawing visible on breaks either.
Just my observations. You would be best to judge, your photo's.
Sounds like you have good gear, so you should do well.
Good luck

[Rusty2]

. Assume the same with the height, Our mates would just push it over or break it lower down.

Hi Dashboard and thank's for your obsevation's .
Your absolutely right , they would push it over . Nice catch ! I wondered about that myself . There were lot's of other tree's in the same condition but only took so many photo's . I was concentrating on the break's at the time because I'd never seen it before .

Cheer's Rusty2..............