Galahs on the school ground...

...eating lawn seed. Akin to a military operation they were exploiting in a frenzy a large patch of freshly dug (I think seeded) earth adjacent to a sports oval. As quickly as I hurried to catch up with them they had shifted as a platoon might of one accord intent on clean-up.

Galahs!

A galah is a screeching bird with a voracious appetite for seeds and the joy I feel is immense when I am walking at leisure and see great flocks of these birds shuffling and flitting from one place to immediate other, usually under trees that have dropped seeds or among grass seeds on the edges of cultivated grasses in park areas. The collective movement of anything up to 150 galahs usually ambling creates from a distance a carpet of pink and grey patterns among what appears a grey downy albeit lumpy carpet, characteristic of the intently bowed pecking heads. Closer, galahs superimposed on the grey and brown bark and leaf layers under eucalyptus trees and spilling onto the green grass of parklands make their ground environments exquisite to the eye as they move revealing glimpses of their pink breast feathers. They are as common on the driest of parched areas of Australia and verdant areas around water courses and dams.

Galahs! We refer to people who make impulsive decisions or drive recklessly endangering others, particularly making excessive noise as galahs. Another descriptor is galahs are comedians, making people laugh uproariously and particularly if the comic behaviour is slapstick that accompanies classic Australian buffoonery.

On the right hand side of this page of 'Birds in Backyards' is a recording of the screech of a galah.

Another square image for the challenge of Square September hosted by Ambling Camera :)