Happy New Year everyone – here’s to another year of birding, hopefully a successful one for all. I’ve already logged 20 species here at home in the Dandenong Ranges on the first day of this month, although I didn’t get photos of all of them. I use the eBird app which I now find very…
Tag: yellow-tailed black cockatoo
Sunlit cockatoo
I am always out and about with my camera. I live in fear of missing ‘that shot’ if I don’t have it outside with me whenever I’m in the garden or elsewhere. In fact, I have missed a few shots for that very reason – leaving my camera inside. Thankfully it doesn’t happen often, leaving…
Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
Continuing with the cockatoos, the Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo seem to be more present this year where I live. I hear them every day calling as they fly overhead. I don’t remember hearing them that much in past years. Below are shots that have been taken in our garden, or at Lysterfield Park in the past…
Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
Isn’t he a cutie? Think he might be young as his feathers look fluffy, He was as interested in me as I was him when I saw him earlier in the month. Their cry is much different to that of other cockatoos. I love hearing them. Not raucous at all.
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo
We had a visit from this bird again the other day. We don’t see it very often and it always announces its presence loudly. So my husband and I looked in the direction of the noise and found it high up in a gum tree in the neighbour’s yard. We could see it from our…
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
These birds are not commonly seen and appear to be very shy. They’re certainly not as plentiful as other birds we see, however I have gotten to know their screech from the odd few times I’ve seen/heard one before. So when I heard it screech in my backyard last week I was quick to race…