Black Cockatoo's

This week while chucking laps around my local park, I heard things falling through the trees, thinking someone was up the tree, I stopped to look closer, the big gum trees had heaps of these big black cockatoos, I hadn't taken much notice of the noise until then, but it was quite a racket I presume there was young ones up there, they sounded like a rusty saw going non stop.  The black cockatoo are said to herald the coming of rain, they where accurate there, as the puddles will show you.

The noise of things falling through the trees I had heard where falling honky nuts, above you can see the mess they make and below you can see where they nibble around the tops, they must have very strong beaks.  When I hear and see them I am careful walking underneath as I don't fancy getting hit on the head by a falling honky nut.

 The first day I saw them they where down lower but the next day its was raining and they where higher up, below you can see them preening their wings out to dry, dumb birds it was still raining and dumber me standing under the trees taking photo's drenched through to my underwear, and i had a raincoat on, they don't seem to make proper raincoats here that keep you dry, only shower proof and this was more than a shower, but it was nice walking in the rain.

                    Hows this for green you kiwi's,bet you didn't think we got this green aye!

                     See those clouds, we have had a lot of them lately, bring it on, I say, I'll take it all!
In the weekend paper there was an article on how large tract's of native bush has died because of the extreme heat and the driest summer last in recorded history, and they say that it will not regenerate.  Signs of our climate in trouble?