King of the cypress

Mum's  pines are all forming their cones (if that is what you call them and I am not absolutely sure they are cypress, they may be Thujas or Junipers) and the King parrots are having an absolute feast.

While this is not taken on a macro lens, and the parrot is not tiny, the cones certainly are and so at a stretch it will make the cut for TT.

A very lazy day today with three thunderstorms rolling in.  Watching the start of the Sydney to Hobart on the TV as mum didn't want to go out today.  R is on Antipodes again which seemed to have a reasonable start but must have run in to some trouble as they have dropped well back and are coming 23.  Another yacht a friend has sailed on which is much smaller is well ahead of them.  No records set this year.