Currawongs Eat Prickly Pears!!!!

Today I was surprised to see a strange purple dropping in the bird bath. On closer inspection I eventually realised it was a piece of purple prickly pear fruit.

This means that the currawong who ate it had cleverly managed not to get any cactus thorns in its tummy. Prickly Pears are an introduced species. I have to credit any bird who could manage to carefully eat around the thorns. I guess this shows a native species has adapted to an introduced species?

I really like eating prickly pear fruits, too, but the thorns are what make them so troublesome. Even wearing heavy welding gloves to pick them, one still ends up requiring the tweezers!!!!!!