The Cockatoo Trees

By David Clowes and Chris Pape

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The Cockatoo Trees (click for Photo)are a group of pine trees along the back of our school. We call them the cockatoo trees because lots of cockatoos come and feed off the pine cones. (See Cockatoos). The cockatoo trees are made up of 29 trees. The trees drop a lot of pine needles. The little kids think that the pine needles are hay (That's what horses eat) and make beds out of it. Puffing Billy goes behind the trees and all the kids race him. The trees form a kind of tunnel. Some of the trees have fairly big roots.

Cockatoos

Cockatoos are members of the parrot family, you find them in Australia and New Guinea. They are large birds with strong hooked beaks, crested heads and short tails.They have a really loud screech. We get the sulphur crested white cockatoos and black cockatoos in our cockatoo trees....

See Holly's drawing of the cockatoo trees to go with the story.

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