They are back again. The cockies. Summer and the dandelions are flowering. I took this pic from just outside our loungeroom window. They were aware I was there, but while I stayed under the trees they didn't feel threatened.
It's usually just on dusk when they come down and you can see the sun almost setting in this photo. We have no fruit left on our trees, and they have lined the chestnuts in their sites.
There's usually between 60-70 in the flock. You can see the grass has dried out, but since I took this pic a couple of weeks ago, we've had lovely rain during the night and it's much greener now.
And then they go to the pond on the other side of the house and you can see some on guard in the trees and a group at the edge of the pond drinking. It is usually just coming on to sunset, and then the noisy critters go further 'down the back' and roost in the gums there. They squabble and squawk during the night and then are 10 times as noisy in the morning about 6am, when they fly back over the house squawking and then around the town. I'm not sure whether they follow the ridge of the hills along during the day, they can usually be found in a flock down in the valley, but there will often be several flying around calling during the day.
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