Sulphur
crested cockatoos. Cheery, intelligent birds or hooligans? From our
experience, hooligans. Our local flock enjoy a screeching fly past
around first light with an occasional landing on the top of the mast,
or the spreaders, or perhaps some acrobatics on the forestay. Apart
from the poop that splatters the deck below, that would be OK but
these feathered vandals pull the cups off the wind indicator, strip
the covering off the aerial which is great to cling onto and bounce
and they peck and rip the headsail! David has a new all time record
for getting from bed to on deck where he slaps the mast or shakes the
shrouds to chase them away. They finally leave, laughing as they go
because they know they'll be back.
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