Wednesday, October 27, 2010

RED-TAILED BLACK-COCKATOO

Image from bushbernie.blogspot.com/2010/07/wildlife-on-w...

One of the joys of owning your own small birding patch. You can be sitting on the east veranda [see last pic, Background Brifing - stairs are on east side of house], casually polishing an assortment of shoes and boots [Fay was still in bed enjoying her second cuppa] when a distant bird call attracts your attention. There was no mistaking the call, Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, what remained in doubt was how many.

Six came into view from the south, one a little west of the other five but as they passed over in front of the house they veered to the NE and were gone. Magnificent creatures!

We have had all three regional Black-Cockatoos here; the Yellow-tailed the most common, the Glossy Black-Cockatoo the rarest but moves are afoot to encourage them on a more regular basis [again, browse the earlier blog].

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