Day 66I walked alongside the lake to Hermione's bench and there were sulphur-crested cockatoos everywhere. Some were choosing their night-time roosting spot - they make such a noise over this - thin whines and creaking door sounds - and others were grabbing a last snack, scratching under the pin oak trees for acorns. When I started drawing these ones, there were two here, then fifty, then a magpie flew down and all the cockies left. 6 km
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I can't believe that you have such tropical birds, but a temperature below freezing. I had fun today on Google earth trying to work out where you lived. I found Yarralumla! Canberra seemed really small for a city. If your computer is up to it, it's the most fascinating way to waste enormous amounts of time. Sadly at the moment the Sandridge and St Albans pictures are very blurry, hopefully they'll eventually be replaced by something better
I hate to say it Alison but here I really dont like the big white cockies, not madly keen on the corellas either, they get into the orchard and rip out the tops of the trees and decimate the newly planted stuff.. They used to be only seen in the north now they are in plague proportions here, some towns are even culling them they are so destructive.
There are quite afew other parrots, Julie - I shall try to draw them soon. I guess parrots aren't only tropical birds. Sorry, I haven't done a map yet - I really want to do one that goes at the top of my blog so it's always habdy but my efforts to do a personalised header on my other blog failed so I haven't made the effort again yet.
Penny - we never used to have all these cockatoos - they do have a good go at the gum trees but there are also lots of european trees with goodies for them here so they're not really a nuisance. Our pests are the possums which make a lot od night noise and pee on everything and the currawongs which are becoming much more numerous and killing off the smaller birds.
Love this one!
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