Paul Pichugin
@paulmp • 9,861 subscribers
Husband. Dad. Commercial Travel & Landscape Photographer & Videographer.
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Consider this a small reminder that while the internet is busy shouting about everything, there's a black cockatoo sitting in a tree outside my house quietly getting on with the important business of destroying Marri nuts. One of the things I love most about living on a farm is the regular stream of visitors. This particular visitor is a black cockatoo, most likely a Baudin's, although I'm fully aware that the bird experts of the internet may arrive shortly to inform me that it's actually a Carnaby's. If so, I look forward to my education. Baudin's have the longer beak and spend a lot of their time tearing apart Marri nuts, which is exactly what this one was doing outside the house. Carnaby's tend to favour the drier woodlands and wheatbelt country, while Baudin's are more commonly found through the forests of the south-west. Either way, a whole flock of them regularly turns up and spends the day methodically dismantling Marri nuts. By nightfall, it often looks like a small explosion has occurred in the trees above the lawn. There are gumnut fragments everywhere. Still, they provide endless opportunities for photography and video, so I reckon we're getting the better end of the deal.
Paul Pichugin16,483 views • 1 month ago
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