lotofwind said..So why do birds in WA eat roofing screws ???? They must have a lot of torque in those little necks

Ruddy birdlife can be fun to watch - we share our rifle range with red tail + white tail black cockatoos, they perch in the tree above our 400 yard firing point and lop branches up to 1" thick, or nip off the gumnuts and drop them on the shooters below.
Of course we usually forget to tell visiting competitors to avoid those particular spots in the shade....
Also, I had a running dispute with a family of crows on one of the mine sites I was shotfiring on.
These particular birds just love to nick shiny and colourful stuff.
Anyone here ever tried explaining to a suspicious mine site boss why the detonator count is out by "X" amount - and having to show him the crows nest with multiple det. leads dangling from it before he would believe me.
Thank gawd I had witnesses when one of the crows nicked a det with tnt booster attached