The Birds of Sydney

We have been taking life in Sydney pretty easy and we haven't done much in the last week but walk around. However one of my highlights has again been the cockatoos. Someone in our hostel told us that the cockatoos in Royal Botannical gardens would fly over to see you and somene else told us to try feeding monkey nuts to attract them. So guess what we did!? Yep, we went straight out and got monkey nuts.



We went down to the gardens looking for the cockatoos but we couldn't find any so we sat in the middle of one of the greens. I then caught sight of a single cockatoo so I jumped up and went on a hunt. I then found a tree filled with them. One landed on my shoulder and I started walking back to see Samantha with it (I was so excited). As I walked back there was a woman walking through the park completely naked (sorry we don't have pictures of her) who stole my thunder as Samantha was too busy laughing at her to share my excitement.

We then walked over to the tree, Samantha was adament that I could feed the birds as she did not want them landing on her, however the cockatoos had other ideas as one flew straight over and landed on her shoulder. As we feed them we ended covered in them (and I ended up with poo down my shirt).



If the next box we sent home has holes in the side could someone buy some nuts.