These birds are regular visitors to our garden. In fact, I believe they live on our property although I haven’t actually seen their nest. They are constantly on the watch for worms and yesterday, with the warmth of the sun, skinks were out too. In fact, we saw a skink scurry across the paved driveway…
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Kookaburra in the early morning sun
The early morning sun hits various parts of our property as it rises above the trees across the road from our home. I love watching our garden being gradually bathed in sunlight. A couple of mornings ago a kookaburra sat in the tree at the end of our driveway (one of their favourite trees) and…
Australian Laughing Kookaburra
Now the cooler weather is coming the kookaburras have come back. I guess in the dry weather worms and witchety grubs are harder to find – although we have had quite a bit of rain. Still, seeing the kookas in our trees is a sign to me that the bushfire season has passed – it…
Kookaburra closeup
They have such beautiful colouring, these birds. Similar to gum trees really. Love the dappled feathers underneath too. And their beautiful big eyes.
Kookaburra
These are such comical looking birds at times – they look down along their beak at you. I love watching them. They watch the ground intently for their next food item but they also watch around them too. They perch up in trees, on signposts, washing lines, anywhere really. And I love to hear their…