Sulphur-Crested Visitors

This morning a flock of about 25 sulphur-crested cockatoos dropped by to inspect the garden.

They were unimpressed that I still haven't planted anything in the main part of my "garden bed":

After some discussion they decided that the melianthus needed some pruning:

And that I should have been dead-heading the daffodils:

Unfortunately they chose some not-dead heads to demonstrate their preferred technique.

At that point I thought I should go out and introduce myself, but as soon as I said, "Hello Cockies", they all took off to inspect someone else's garden. How rude!

I wasn't very happy to find this:

I had noticed the almost-open red tulip early this morning when I was letting the chooks out, and made a mental note to photograph it later when the light improved. I wasn't expecting that it would look like this before I got the chance.