Image from Google ImagesOur skies have been besieged by these guys - sulphur-crested cockatoos. A native of Australia, they have an unusual, screeching call. They eat the acorn-like nuts that are in the plane trees that line our streets and at about this time of year - when the nuts are just right, presumably - they descend en masse. There are probably 200 in the trees surrounding our house right now. And when they're not screeching all you hear is a determined crunch, crunch, crunch of nuts.
PS I've posted this pic in preference to one of my own - every time I got near them, they all flew away!
4 comments:
These are wonderful white Birds.
All an exotic thought to me, living within Trees populated by them.
It was quite extraordinary - they were just everywhere - in the trees, on the ground, wheeling around in the sky...
They're so cute but it's hard to imagine a 200 of them all together at once!
I used to keep a yellow crest in the past, it was adorable.
They are lovely birds but quite noisy en masse!
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