During the week about a dozen yellow-tailed black cockatoos visited our park. They were having a field day, chewing on branches and pulling out borers. My True Love snapped these photos. One of the young ones got caught up in a branch that it was chewing and it tumbled to the ground when the branch finally gave way. The youngster was unfazed by this. Check ’em out.
Take care, everyone, and carry on.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Reflections of An Untidy Mind 
These guys are wonderful! I love them!
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They are great. They know how to enjoy themselves. I wasn’t there so I had to ask for photos when I heard they were visiting.
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What great expressions they have!
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They always make me smile even when they are doing some heavy duty pruning.
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🙂 Smiling is good!
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Wonderful photos. They really tear up those branches. My dogs do the same for cutworms in the grass.
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You have to wonder how they know those borers are there. Perhaps the cockatoos have good hearing. Dogs do, and good smell sense. I wonder if cockatoos have a keen sense of smell as well?
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What beautiful birds!
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They are treated like royalty when they visit but unfortunately I wasn’t home then, Dries. Always such a treat to see them.
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What a pity you weren’t there when these VIPs arrrived!
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I love hearing Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos in the bush around my place. Great photos 😀
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It is rare for our area, Brian, so we treat them like royalty. Do they visit you often?
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It’s migratonal I think. They follow the food trees. The love Casuarina Tree nuts and ripping my wattles apart for grubs. At least once a year. See lots flying about though. Biggest flock was about twenty. Now that’s noise when they fly over!
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There could have been as many as 20 the other day. It was very noisy apparently. I’m sure even I would have heard them.
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Wow! They must have enlivened your day!
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It was probably the only day I haven’t been in the park for months, Margaret, so I enjoy them vicariously like everyone else. 🙂
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Great photos, Tracy!
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Thanks, Jo. TL did a good job getting decent photos among all those branches. Plus, my camera settings were weird apparently. 🙂
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Wonderful photo and also to actually see these cockatoos.
I saw what I thought was a sheet of black plastic in a high tree in the nature reserve behind my building. Took a very bad photo and when I zoomed in at home and saw the yellow cheek colour, I discovered it was a Yellow-tailed black cockatoo. They’re not supposed to come this far south at all.
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I wasn’t home, Vicki, so I didn’t see them! I don’t think I would have done as good a job taking their photos. Did you hear your black plastic. The noise kind of gives them away.
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No, the ‘black plastic’ shape was too far away and I could hear nothing.
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He seemed to have only a few ruffled feathers from the experience! They must have very strong beaks to tear into a branch like that.
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Very strong beaks. I wasn’t there, Heather, but my TL said the landing was relatively gentle.
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Those cockatoos must have been such fun to watch! Thank you to you and your True Love for capturing and sharing the moment.
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I wasn’t there, Liz! So I loved seeing the photos too. I can well imagine the antics though. And the noise!
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😀
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Such a pretty bird!
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I wonder if they get sick of the attention, Lois. 🙂
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Oh, these look great, and fun to watch too it seems 😀
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They are very personable birds with lots to say, Sarah. Unfortunately I wasn’t home to go down to the park to see them.
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Great shots, but how is the verge garden coming?
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Thanks, Lou. I’m working on a really big verge project now. Every night I go to bed exhausted, too exhausted to organise some photos.
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Your TL did a great job. Those birds are so cute.
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I love them, Anne, and yes, he did.
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Beautiful photos, great to see them. Thanks to you and TL!
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Thanks, Liz. I put in a special request for the photos because I wasn’t home that day.
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That’s odd that they would tear off the branch they were actually on! But they’re still beautiful birds.
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All the more fun, Ann. 🙂
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❤️black cockatoos
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They have a huge fan club. 🙂
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