Gang-gangs

What beautiful, beautiful birds.

How cute is this juvenile male Gang-gang Cockatoo! This week I took heaps of photographs of this magnificent, endangered, species as they fed on hawthorn berries and called their soft, creaky-door call. If you look closely, or click to enlarge, you’ll see that some red feathers on his head are still sprouting. When he reaches adulthood his entire head will be bright red and his jaunty little crest will be considerably longer and more twisted. The remainder of his plumage is slate grey with lighter fringing giving his body a beautifully scalloped appearance. He is perched on a hawthorn branch which is laden with ripe red berries. I like the way his bill is surrounded with berries and that he glanced towards me as I took the photograph. Apart from the stunning bird himself there are a few things I especially like about this photograph, including the background which is a lovely blur of distance greens and yellows along with a sprinkling of well-blurred red berries. I also like the sprig of berries curving in the foreground, that give context to the photograph.

I have been out to this area twice in the past week but can’t load all my images yet as my computer needs new hardware to cope with the new camera gear. I shall be eating cornflakes for dinner for a very, very long time. But I’ll be smiling as I do it.

Happy birding, Kim

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