Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos over Canberra

To:	"John Layton" <>
Subject:	Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos over Canberra
From:	"Evan Beaver" <>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:43:46 +1000

That's 18 inches of rain in the old money. Is it raining?

Apparently, for those that don't know, there was a belief among Aussie
farmers that black cockatoos flying over represented the number of
inches of rain that was coming.

EB

On 4/16/08, John Layton <> wrote:
> At 7:00am today I counted eighteen Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos flying over 
> Civic (Canberra's CBD). They came from the west and appeared to descend into 
> the Mount Ainsle/Mt Majura area east of the city area.
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