Feeding Frenzy
Our (not-so) friendly neighbourhood Cockatoos visited en masse yesterday, keen to destroy the surrounding pool lamps and take what was left of the seed and bread lying around on the deck.
You can clearly see in the foreground on the fence, the broken lamp. And the whereabouts of its top remain unknown.
These loud, destructive individuals visit on a regular basis - and while we try not to encourage them - if you don’t feed them, you get something damaged. They are beautiful birds, but it would be nice if they had a little more respect for our stuff - especially when you’re giving them an extra source of food! 
This one was a little more tame than the rest of the pack - he’s a regular - can hand feed him the bread and seed.
His mate had dropped down to the pool deck to finish off the rest of its meal.
And spotted another two on the lower deck.
After they had their fill, they departed with a deafening cacophony of sound… all except this greedy bugger, who decided to stick around and pick up whatever had been left behind.
Buggers..
miniminor said,
July 10, 2007 @ 4:10 am
Aww they look so sweet !
Just shown the pics to mum and she said ”Better than the sparrows we get ”
Paul said,
July 10, 2007 @ 4:23 am
I think you love ‘em really.
Kate said,
July 10, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
Paul - I think so too.
They are cute. Little buggers by the sound of it. But cute
Vanwall said,
July 10, 2007 @ 1:30 pm
Better cockatoos than our ravens - at times up to 100 at once. It’s like Hitchcock’s “The Birds”
Phanny said,
July 11, 2007 @ 8:54 am
OMG I love them
I think I should name them all 
ScottyB said,
July 11, 2007 @ 9:49 am
MM - prettier than Sparrows maybe, but I bet your Mum wouldn’t be happy when they start disassembling your new back deck
Paul - its a love/hate relationship really
Kate - you’ll have to try hand feeding them if you’re around early enough one afternoon!
V - We have the Australian Raven here, but never in those sort of numbers! Cockatoos are the dominant force around our area of bush. Sometime’s you’ll see large flocks of them (~100-200) in fields and stuff, picking at the grass seed.
Phanny - go on, dare ya