While staying in Mallacoota I visit Bastion Point several times a day at various tides looking for the birds that usually stop by this part of the coast. On most visits I came across a flock of Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoos. I think it was an extended family as there were several adults and a bunch of juveniles still begging for food. The sound young cockatoos make when begging would make anyone give them food just to shut them up. On this occasion the adults were quite agitated while the younger birds played around, looking about I found a young whistling kite on a tree branch nearby watching them all intently.
Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo, Bastion Point, Mallacoota, Vic
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Preening and teasing each other
Immature Whistling Kite watching the Black-cockatoos
A bright male Superb Fairy-wren on lookout.
The Gap Year and Beyond 
Beautiful photos. I envy you this experience. 🙂
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Thanks Tracy.
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A nice find Malt and lovely shots.
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Great photos. I don’t think I’ve heard baby cockatoos begging for food, but I have heard and seen baby magpies, and it’s no surprise that the parents work so hard to shove stuff into those beaks. It’s funny watching them ‘hunt’ sticks and grass as they learn what food looks like too. One spent hours subduing a blind cord on our back porch, only to be very disappointed to find it quite inedible.
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thanks Sue, the rest of the photos with the pair of juveniles show them teasing, grooming and plucking feathers off the other just for the fun.
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