MashfordPhotographs

33°23′S 151°21′ECentral Coast, NSW

A sulphur-crested cockatoo walking across a verandah table with a crumb in its beak

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No.
03 / 04
Work
Wildlife
Year
2026
Frames
7

A stay at a bush cabin and the regulars who came to check on us: sulphur-crested cockatoos on the verandah rail and kookaburras watching from the gums.

A cockatoo perched on a white verandah railing among green trees
On the rail
A cockatoo holding food in one foot on the verandah rail
Breakfast
A white cockatoo with wings spread, dropping out of a dark tree
Leaving

They never stayed long once the food ran out.

The kookaburras were patient. They sat in the same branch for hours and let me get it right.

A kookaburra perched on a curved branch among fine leaves
Kookaburra
A kookaburra on a dark branch, head turned to the side
Watching
Close portrait of a kookaburra on a branch, its long beak in profile
Close
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Matthew Mashford

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