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Hey all,
For the past few years we’ve had parents of newly hatched magpies come for a little feed at times (cat biscuits, off cut of meat from dinner, meely worms & some sneaky cheese from time to time). We’ve had the usual mum & dad come down take a snack and they take back to the nest, this year is different.
Some of the magpies are still coming in for a feed, we’ve now have a juvenile magpie coming a couple times a day, butcher bird occasionally, 2 kookaburras (one started because he slammed into our pool fence- not once but he’s up to his 3rd time not the sharpest tool he’s called whack fuck) his mate is a bit on the derrrr side too, a couple of dumb & dumbers…. This morning a brush turkey chick flew in, I do like to think of myself as a “Snow White” kinda guy but this is weird.
My thoughts are, as we’ve only had just over 10mm of rain since August there’s not much food about. Is this the case?

Edit:

Yeah… I do feed the birds not a lot and I don’t feed them much human food at all. Raw meat (not mince) mealy worms, some high quality cat biscuits & odd bit of cheese. We have water in a low dish for drinks etc.
My question wasn’t about food, it was about the amount and variety of bird life wanting food at the moment. We have been interacting and doing a little feeding over the years but this year it’s next level.

A big thanks to all the wildlife warriors commenting about me feeding them. Oh yeah and thanks to the dude making comments on my poorly written post - spot on, my last line made zero sense even to me, I think I fixed it.

I wasn’t asking people if I should feed them. We don’t do it much and have done a bit for few years. Always water and few snacks here and there. No need for the attacks. No need for the arrogance or the posturing.
I’m purely asking others that do the same in Brisbane if they have noticed an increase. Like I initially said the parents fly down every few days grab a bit and take it back to the nest. Normally by now they’ve gone back to normal bird lives but this year they’re still coming and a larger variety. Something is different!
That’s all…

What does everybody’s first day of the price rise look like? We’ve gone from credit to this! We’ve only been with GloBird for less than 2 months - guess it’s time to shop around again….

Hey all! We’ve had our set up for about 7 weeks and have got into an ok pattern.
System: 15kw solar
25kw inverter
40kw Sigenergy batteries
Charge EV & batteries at “free o’clock” as we call it.
We are in Brisbane and with GloBird - zero hero plan and it’s been pretty good, but each day there has been usage, not a lot but usually around $0.30 a day. This does my head in! Is this a system thing? Is it a GloBird thing? Is rookie user error thing? I have my mode set to GloBirds VPP scheduling, so I under the impression I’m doing it right, I just don’t want to use any grid power unless it’s “free o’clock”.
I export set to 1.7kw so as I have enough storage each morning, and with all this rain and cloud I generally need it as there’s not a lot of solar being produced.
So to cut an awfully long story short I have 2 questions:

1. How do I stop this unwanted usage (if I change the VPP status do I “loose” the zero hero benefits)?
2. With the July 1 increase will the plan be worth it? If not where is everyone going to?