Who needs an alarm clock!!

At around 5.30 this morning we woke up to the most phenomonal noise. There were about 1000 white cockatoos feeding on our block next door. It was an amazing sight. These pictures just don't do it justice. My camera is just not good enough. The paddock is 5 1/2 acres and it and the block over the back were covered in cockatoos. They are really noisy but the treat of nature we are given makes up for that. I stood and just looked for quite some time. The kids hate it - you just can't sleep with that sort of noise.

The cockies have just taken off to go and drink from the river which is about 500m away. I can still hear them! On Sunday morning some of them thought our roof was a good resting place and it sounded like an army was walking on the roof. they had also landed in our palm trees. Unfortunately I couldn't get a picture of the roof because as soon as they saw me they all took off.