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Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos, Koala and much inbetween

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Subject: Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos, Koala and much inbetween
From: Bill Jolly <>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:14:21 +1000
Quite a weekend!

We were visited yesterday morning by four or five Yellow-tailed Black 
Cockatoos. They spent some time in casuarinas on the creekbank, then moved up 
into the garden where they gnawed away at old seedcases and galls and even 
branches in a couple of Acacia maidenii, intermittently screeching out their 
raptor-like contact calls.

When we moved onto Abberton, about 20 years ago, a few eucalypts along the old 
fence-line by the road were the only mature trees we had here. Later, we bought 
the old road reserve alongside that boundary and began to plant it up with 
local endemics so as to join the vegetation further along the creek with what 
we had here and what we were intending to plant here - the aim being to make a 
contiguous wildlife corridor.

Well, it’s been working quite well. Our list of mammals has steadily grown over 
the years, along with our bird list, and this-afternoon in a eucalyptus right 
in the garden – our first Koala. We’ve seen them a few kilometres along the 
creek in one direction, and along the road in another, but never before in our 
garden.

In between these two events, much of the other usual excitement was going on, a 
raucous Channel-billed Cuckoo fly-by, a gorgeous female Eastern Koel in a tree 
by the gate as I went out to get the Sunday paper, a Wedge-tailed Eagle passing 
low overhead carrying what looked very like a chook, Dollarbirds in pairs, 
Rainbow Bee-eaters likewise, and at breakfast time this-morning two Plum-headed 
Finches in an unkempt patch of garden just off the verandah.

I’ve just put photos of the some of these at http://www.abberton.org/holding.htm

Bill Jolly

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