Native cockatoos

[lisascannell]

Lisa - Get lots of photos and videos when you go!! Would love to see!

I definitely will! In the meantime, here as some piccies of some wild birds taken in a friends back yard. There's even a kookaburra in there

 

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[Juliejet]

I have lived here in Camden NSW and we had the corellas for all that time flying in in the morning and flying out in the evening but the last few month the sulfer crested Toos have moved in not as many as the corellas there use to be thousands but only hundreds of sulfers I must say I don't miss the loud noise as it was only a hundred mtrs from my house I'm enjoying the sulfers tho

 

[Betrisher]

We had the opposite: large flocks of SC2s (number in the several hundreds) flying over like clockwork were replaced by even larger flocks of mixed Corellas (both kinds). I reckon the SC2s that used to strafe my place every morning and evening have moved down your way and your Corellas have come to visit me. I must say, the Corellas are a lot easier to put up with: they're not nearly as destructive as the big Cockies and they don't seem to linger in one place for too long. A few years ago, the Cockies absolutely stripped all the gum trees in the local area, leaving the frass on the ground beneath as evidence. That wasn't so bad, but when they began going for TV antennas and cables, well, that was pretty awful: gotta have our TV! LOL!

One really good thing about the wild flocks: the bloke across the road used to have a collection of Port Lincoln parrots and Mallee Ringnecks. They weren't at all noisy, but his next-door neighbours seemed not to enjoy the sounds they made. Luckily, when the council inspector came out to follow up the complaint, the wild Cockies were hanging around and being their usual deafening selves. Craig was told there was no problem with his 'quiet' birds and the neighbours lost the case. They moved not long after that. Oh well.