OMGZ Corellas

I seem to take a while to post about things so this is a bit more autumn action from back in April. That's when the exotic Plane Trees in the streets around here were offering up some very fluffy and apparently very tasty seed balls.

mmm, seed balls...

This didn't not go unnoticed by the huge flocks of Little Corellas that have been descending on Melbourne to apparently attack trees, wreak havoc and have insane corella parties.

another three of the havoc-wreakers

I crossed paths with group of the cheeky guys in a suburban street when I happened to have my camera on board. They were well into the seed balls and I also had a hard time not running over some that were drinking from a puddle in the gutter. Classy.

plenty on the footpath, heaps more in the trees

Luckily most other cars also slowed down to let them get out of the way, though the corellas did take their sweet time about it. One nice passenger even got out to usher them off the road though it seems corellas don't really understand the concept of being ushered.

they do kinda make a bit of a mess...

The real size of the flock was revealed when they suddenly all took off together and left me in a huge rain of seed balls and fluff. (It was pretty funny at the time but I was itchy for the rest of the day.) They joined even more of their mates at the park across the road. There might have been something like 100 birds altogether.

different tree, same snack

Some of them then moved on to the spiky seed balls of a Liquidambar Tree and made a good mess there too.

mmm, spiky

But the seed-ball feast is now over for another year, so these guys will be wreaking havoc elsewhere to find new snacks. Beware!