Found these 2 Yellow tailed black cockatoo's pruning my Banksia.
Super wren
Restless flycatcher
The two babies survived the hailstorm that we had the other day.
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Great shots Wanda, love the Yellow Tailed Blacks, we don't get to see many here.
how lucky are you , nice pics
Neil
Hi Wanda, love the Cockatoos,we have a pair with 3 juveniles coming to our place, I love them. I can get very close to them, as they are not worried by anything.(why are their eyes pink? Can it be fixed with the red eye button?) Hi Cath and Shane, if you come to my place, may be you could see them, if you are lucky?
M-L
Thank you Cath, Shane and Narly.
Thank you Araminta, I thought the same when I saw it as well but had a look in my Field Guide and it shows that the males have a pink eye-ring. The other day we had 7 in the trees and yesterday there were 5. Oh boy are they good pruners. :-)
G'day Wanda, don't know where you are but my sister who lives on the Redcliffe Peninsula in southern Queensland has recently seen the yellow-tailed black cockatoos in the banksias that are planted along the footpaths in her street. They seem to strip a tree and then move on to the next. As for being good pruners, the only problem is thst they leave all the prunings on the ground, leaving a mess on the road and footpath. Sue
Hi Sue, I am in NSW at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Yes you are right they are very destructive and can cause a lot of damage to the trees and leave a big mess, but they do not come to my house so often and my banksia trees are fairly large, so in one way they prune the tops that we cannot reach.
We had them as regular visitors in Gulgong. They loved our pine tree and left debris all over my car. Their beaks are so strong, they can crack open unopened pine cones to get to the good bits.
Sorry guys to say it, "in the birdworld (nature),there is no destruction", that's what humans do! There is purpose in everything,the birds will spread the seeds, so new Banksias can grow after the next fire.I'm open to any suggestions of that not beeing the case? Today is the first Total Fire Ban day where I live. We had the first suspicious grass and scrub fire already at 9 o'clockthis morning, just 5 km outside of Gembrook.(suspicious?),And close to me.
M-L
Yep... have to agree there Araminta..... pruning is a good description if a little understated Wanda LOL. They sure love their nuts of any description. Down at Mooloolaba by the beach a few of them them hang in the Casuarinas and the Banksias. I have yet to catch them though with the camera. When we lived in Perth the red tailed blacks used to come into the tall Jarrahs on our bush block and shred the living daylights out of the trees just for fun.... while eating a few gum nuts as well. Left a lot of mess but they were always a welcome messer !
Sunshine Coast Queensland
We had Yellow tailed cockatoos at our place a couple months ago,i have lived here for 10 years and this is the first time anyone in the court has seen them here, three of then set about demolishing a small flowering gum i mean they totally destroyed it down to the trunk!the owner of the tree just shrugged her shoulders and said guess i better put in a couple more.
She just wished they wouldn't all start screeching every time they dropped another branch on the ground.
Araminta i don't know what we can do,locals have started doing patrols of problem areas everyone is suspicious of strangers walking or riding around in bushland.
and after last year we know a some are started by locals!and thats really scary!
Sorry not to have answered earlier sparrow, this is a hard question. Beeing vigilant is good, taking the law in it's own hands is probabely not.I have done it on a few occasions. Two years ago, when the fires started at Andersons Track 1 and 2 in the Bunyip St. Park,I went out and stopped Tourists from entering the Park by blocking the road with my car, telling them to go back home!I wrote down numberplates, pretended to be the Ranger, and did all kinds of illegal things to stop people. Two days later I was replaced by a road-block!I drive to the top of a hill to see if there is smoke, but the best thing to have is a CFA Scanner, so you know where the Brigade is going long before anyone else,then you can make an informed decision.I have access to a local weather station, windspeed etc. But most important is - not to panic- Patrolling is not a bad idea,I have followed people to see what they were doing.But nothing helps more than the right equipment to fight the fire.Get as prepared as you can, consider all options depenging on YOUR situation, then relax, but don't get complacent.As I don't know where you live,I can't say more.
M-L
No i,m in a good location now the surrounding area has been cut back and cleared up two of my naighbours and myself are cfa volunteers,but were all getting on a bit and just try to stay out of the way!
My wife and i lost our home to a fire five years ago and rebuilt on the same spot,ours wasn't deliberately lit that would have made it worse (great way to get adult children to move out)
what i meant was, what more can we do to try to stop these mongrels starting them in the first place,it's so frustrating,sounds like you have been pretty active!
But here we go again first total fire ban day and you have one start near you,and i'm at a new years party in rosbud and some idiot starts one 3k down the road!
What an amazingly diverse country we live in..... you have to worry about the bush fires and here we are underwater in a large part
good luck with the fire season you guys :)
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Hi birdie,i don,t know what would be worse coming home and seeing your home completely gutted by fire as i did, or watching the water rising and not being able to do anything to stop it! hope you and your family are not in the flooded area!
HI Sparrow, no we have been very fortunate here on the coast. Have had a thorough drenching but no serious flooding.
Sunshine Coast Queensland