Yellow Tailed Black Cocatoo

On a recent trip away to one of my favourite places, I spied these yellow tailed black cockatoos. Here they were making use of the bird bath supplied next door. They had had their drink, and were getting ready to fly.

There were only two in this pic, but at the time there were three flying around. In the past I have seen up to eight in a group in a nearby location.

We get lots of the sulphur crested cockatoos at home, but these ones are rare at home, so it was great to capture them with the lens.

I Can See You!

Further down the road from the spider's web of yesterday, is a colony of corellas. There are litterally hundreds of them that make a very loud screeching noise. I really feel for the humans which live close by, they are so loud. They are in every tree, on the road, on the walkway over the road, and even in the air flying. This one was watching me very closely to make sure I did not come too close. I have a few pics from yesterday's walk around the park which I will share over the next few days. So stay tuned to see what I have in store.

Corella Family Breakfast

After an afternoon of thunderstorms & over an inch of welcome rain yesterday, this morning dawned very foggy but noisy. It wasn't the alarm that woke me, but these Corellas skreetching. They were feeding on my neighbour's pine tree. This one decided that he wanted to dine alone and not share his food with anyone.

Noisey Visitors

This morning I was peacefully eating my breakfast when this horrendous screetching interrupted me. I knew the cocatoos were around & by the sound,there were lots of them. The noise continued, fading in & out, until it seemed to settle into one spot, extremely loud. They could only be in one spot, the gum tree in my neighbours yard. I have captured about a dozen here, but there were others in other parts of the tree. Thank goodness they only stayed settled for about 5 minutes, before moving on to disrupt someone else's breakfast, and I could continue with mine.

Visitors

Two days ago, just on dusk, there was such a racket going on outside that I could hardly hear myself think. On further inspection I found this sulphur crested cocatoo sitting on the telegraph pole.

He watched me intently, I guess hoping for food. No chance! I have fallen into that trap before & then had them hanging off the house as well as pulling my garden to shreads. After a few minutes he was joined by more of his friends.

They were all a lttle fluffed due to the cool breeze that has been comming up every afternoon.