Cockatoos adopted my Mavic 2 Pro

[plextech]

Shooting a property yesterday, a flock of Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoos swarmed my drone before I could blink. After a second or two I realised there was no danger (it was obvious they weren't going to touch it), so I kept shooting and enjoyed the ride. I ended up using the footage in the shoot.

Cockatoos swarm drone

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

Very nice, they are curious by nature.
We have abundant YTBC’s fly through often in the Adelaide Hills over our region.

 

[plextech]

Very nice, they are curious by nature.
We have abundant YTBC’s fly through often in the Adelaide Hills over our region.

And they're bloody noisy too.

 

[AnzacJack]

Are you able to slow the footage down? With a bit of colour correction and slow speed, could be amazing

 

[plextech]

No, because I'm shooting 4k. I have kept the raw footage though, and one day might reuse it with post-process kludge slo-mo.

 

[ZX14-R]

Lucky

 

[plextech]

I have always relied on the kindness of strange birds...