Black and White Birds

 Our very tall Sugar gum hosts many a bird.
Of late we have had visitations of the Corellas in their hundreds, in fact we estimate them in close to a thousand in the paddock. They screech and carry on like so many white, lost harridans and cause a great deal of damage to our local trees.
They are not native to this area belonging to the Northern parts of our country where the goanas would have kept them in check. Our human intervention by cultivating the landscape and growing grain has encouraged the unprecedented breeding of these birds.

 The other birds which suddenly appeared in the tree were a big number of ravens. We had seen them in the paddock north of us on a patch of ground which they were intent on cleaning off . What they had found there we were unsure  of but assumed they were cleaning up the crickets which have been very vocal at night these last nights. We used to call the Ravens, Crows but Crows live in the North of Australia and we seem to have the little Raven here though they could also be the Australian Raven. Apparently the little Raven "Corvus mellori" is nomadic and the Australian Raven"Corvus coronoides" is sedentary......there is only 20mm difference

in size... no doubt there is a small Raven complex there somewhere?
Suddenly too, there are the Candelabra lillies  flowering in all their elegant glory, how wonderful the rain proves to be, the paintbrush lilies have popped up as well. They will produce huge big green leaves after the flowers go. I just find it awe inspiring to see all that beautiful life emerge from the dry and dead vegetation on the ground.

 I wondered if this Galah was a pet as it sat quite quietly on the ground and then sat on a limb of the gumtree looking suitably coy.
 It would not come down but it was on its own and didn't seem to worry about being spoken to.
Meanwhile there were hundreds if not a thousand Corellas in the paddock north of us in exactly the same place the Ravens had occupied a few days before. What did they find to eat there??

Something will have to be done about these bird populations, but who will bite the bullet over this? Don't forget to click on the photos to see more detail.