The Black Cockatoo and the Gathering of Crows

The Black Cockatoo and the Gathering of Crows

11th Jan 2008 1:43pm

White-tailed black cockatoo continue to inhabit the pines. I occasionally hear their rasping call when they are roosting and their call 'ngoolyaark-ngoolyaark' when they are on the wing in flight. Their calling is mostly faint - hard to hear through the glass - but I can still hear it. Also, magpies continue to visit the patch of red petals outside my window. Willy wagtails likewise continue to make sorties across the surface, and they are given to flicking their elongated tails hoping to disturb and scatter insects therein gathered. And on occasions crows continue to gather and mud larks come close on their heels.

I also had another thought about the seed pods. Perhaps they open at the time of flowering when the heat is most concentrated. Or, perhaps the pods and seeds availability at the time of flowering and the crows association to the seeds and pods is singularly that of chance.