Cockatoo Creek

In an English Wood if you here a noise from the canopy that sounds like someone with a terminal smoker's cough, it is usually a Jay. Here it will be a  Sulphur crested Cockatoo. This one was investigating a hole in an Australian white poplar, much to the annoyance of 2 Rainbow Lorikeets, who had ear-marked it as a potential nest site. Cockatoos are around and about the woods throughout the day, singly and in small groups.
Their roost site is up Cockatoo creek that runs far into the folds of Mount Elliot. Every evening these big white birds flyover the house to their beds and half an hour later the big black fruit bats fly out, chattering and squealing and take over their perches in the surrounding trees, wherever there is fruit or blossom