Corella, Cockatoo brighten the roadside

Helping keep a roadside trim this week, Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea) - one of six on the ground -  tucks into its morning greens.

And further along the road, Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) - one of eight - makes a meal of old coastal (Indian) almond.

Lorikeets outslurp daintier Corellas

Flashy and messy, pair of Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) climb into slurpy mango at the Tyto carpark.

How messy? Very!

More delicate feeders, band of five Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea) beside highway about 300 metres from the wetlands this morning.

Almost certainly same five birds - species rare to the area -  that fooled me into misidentification as Long-billeds or hybrids when spotted along road to Abergowrie three or four months back.