I can see you peeping

Back to winter today - I can hardly believe it. Thunderstorms, lightening, and (of course) rain.

I heard the most dreadful racket on the deck this afternoon - it truly sounded like someone was being murdered - but no, it was just a flock of cockatoos flying across, and bombarding the deck with pine cones. The birds really are quite clever. They were lining themselves up, flying across, and quite literally slamming the pine cones onto the hard tiles. Then coming back and picking them up to see if the cones had broken or loosened.

I don't know how successful they were, it was a tad dangerous to stay out there for too long. The thought of being bombed by a pine cone did not appeal.