Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo

I have been out of action for a few weeks with computer melt-down.

Over this time my interest has been with the movement of the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. They moved into this area around early October. Their main interest here is the pine cones on the pine trees at the golf course. They also spend some time in our trees along the river, they cruised west, up and down the tree belt along the coast towards the sand mine, then they would head off toward town then back here again. The first arrival had seven in the group then after a week the numbers doubled to fourteen. They would drink from the horse trough or move across to the river to drink from there. They would herald their arrival with their distinctive squawks, I love watching them play on the wing then cruise off with their slow, graceful wing movement. They have left my area now and I wondered where they went until I went to ‘exercises’ in the Botanic Gardens last week and there they were. I suppose now that they have finished the pine cones I will not see them here again until next year.