OZNikki

Ah crappola... my other half is on his way to Maitland for a weekend of racing now... he's not gonna be happy!

OK, that worked... here's a couple more I took locally. I forgot about the emus! Hmm... maybe I should've joined a bird watching forum... :lol:

Yeah there are definitely some nasty ones around but they can be tamed. There is a flock living in the park that I walk past every lunchtime with some colleagues. One of my colleagues has become so friendly with them that they approach us now and they eat right out of his hand! Mum used to feed the maggies in our yard when we were kids too and they never bothered us. My sister used to have a kookaburra that lived near her house in the Dandenongs (Victoria) that used to sit on her porch railing and eat from her hand too. Trying to attach a piccie I took at Phillip Island last year... hope this works...

We have a flock of about 40 sulphur crested cockatoos that have taken up residence in the pine trees in the park across the road from our house. They make an absolute racket when there is a storm approaching! I think one of them may have been a pet at one stage and escaped because it really sounds like it's trying to say "hello cocky". We also have some gorgeous bright crimson rosellas that come for breakfast in our back yard. Galahs, currawongs, mynah birds (pests) and magpies are common as muck around here too. There are several hundred black swans that live by the lake about 10 minutes drive from my home.