Wild Bird Wednesday - Kookaburra dinner time

At The Basin, Kuringi Chase in North 

Sydney this Kookaburra had found a 

bite and a half

turned it this way 

and that

and felt rather smug after getting it down

and off he went to find some other

tourist tit bit

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Wild Bird Wednesday - Common Suburban Birds of Sydney

Back on line after my trip to Sydney, 

had lots of fun 

and my son took me to interesting places

a one and a half hour drive and a ferry ride

took us to The Basin off Palm Beach

where we found these common birds:

above, Kookaburra

crow

wood ducks wandering

and feeding.

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Wild Bird Wednesday - Kookaburra

A puffed up, very cold Kookaburra

hoping for a handout

field mice are in their burrows and

the snakes he likes as a take-away

are too cold to show their faces

poor old kookaburra

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Travelogue: - Being There, Part 1, BIRDS

Our first day at Currawong Beach was wet

See Intermezzo, a few posts down.

Spurwing plover, Vanellus novaehollandiae
is an early riser, as dawn breaks he is already

a busy bird.

The combination of hand held camera and

minimal light does nothing for photo quality.

Little pied Cormorant, Phalacrocorax melanuleocos
Another early riser, drying off just as the sun is rising.

Grey butcherbird, Cracticus torquatus

feasting on bacon rind

Little raven, Corvus mellori Trying to muscle

in on the BBQ breakfast

Only to be sent packing by the butcherbir returning

for a helping of scrambled eggs

Noisy miner, Manorina flavigula is never backward
in coming forward where food is concerned.

He doesn't try to muscle in, just pick pockets here and

there and gets his share none the less.

Rainbow lorikeet, Trichoglossus moluccanus
another early bird, feeding well before sunrise
and any other time of day.

For breakfast it's nectar from Erithrina x sykesii

A Blue-winged kookaburra, Dacelo leachii too late

for bacon rinds, whistfully surveys the the scene.

Black-backed magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen,

happy with crumbs from the royal feast

and lucky last, a Brush turkey, Alectura lethami

cleans up after every one has finished

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