Have you noticed that the large noisy flock of corellas is not about at the moment. The last we saw of the large flock was a couple of months ago when they spent the entire afternoon in our trees and on our lawn having a mating orgy. I presume that they are off somewhere raising their young. I'm sure that the boaties are happy to see them gone, as these birds can be quite destructive and they just love to dangle from the halyards.
The scaly-breasted lorikeets and the musk lorikeets have also left after spending spring and early summer in the Cove feasting on the flowering gums. However, we still have a large flock of rainbow lorikeets roosting in our hoop pine. 
Our wood ducks have also had a successful breeding season. In 2022 they successfully raised 8 chicks but not quite so many this year. At the moment, they are spending the afternoons in the shade at the waters' edge. They don't like the strong afternoon winds.
The kookaburras in Yallarwah Park have also finished nesting and thankfully the masked lapwings have given up swooping. I'm not sure whether the lapwings were successful this year.
We also have a young butcher bird. He is busy learning his song. His melody is lovely, but I don't appreciate it at 5am. We can also hear the eastern koel (a type of cuckoo that the other birds hate) and the ravens (not crows as they live further north). There is a baby galah near Baromee Way which is making a lot of noise. The Cove is alive with bird song and noise.
Another annoying bird is the bin chicken (white ibis). They are often found at the tip, but we have a couple that frequent our yard. They can spend hours on the bird feeder eating one seed at a time.
We have many more varieties of birds in the Cove, both sea and land birds. Many are small and hard to spot in the trees but many, such as magpies and sea gulls, are large and easy to see. They all make a noise and you only have to listen to realise that we share this space with lots of other living creatures.
