Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Taken a few days ago not far from home. These birds are a bit of a success story in as much as several years ago they were a rarity, but numbers have increased to the point where at times flocks containing as many as 100 birds can be seen and heard flying over the suburbs and countryside...a great thing to see.
Largish birds about the size of ravens feeding almost exclusively on the seeds from Pine Cones, native tree cones and introduced. Rarely coming down low enough for a decent photo, and very wary and hard to approach birds, as is often the case with many flocking species where there is always at least one bird keeping lookout
Taken late afternoon in low light with the last rays of the sun, several images taken of males and female and feeding youngTwo versions of this shot, this one natural WB off camera and sunshine tones warm looking, and another altered to cool the sun color....picked this one to post for no particular reason
Canon 7D + 500 f4 + 1.4 x TC.....700mm, f7.1, 1/1000, ISO 500, + 0.3EV, hand held, cropped to vertical and some leaves and twigs removed, slight sharpen and noise removal to background
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