It is now 4 months since my outback adventure and we came home almost needing another holiday to recover. But it is good to be back.
Look who came visiting with his raucous cackle. This Kookaburra is one of the few birds that can defy the bullying, intimidating attacks of the noisy minor birds. The minors are very territorial and have chased all the colourful native and smaller birds away.
But we have had some very windy weather and even a kookaburra can have a bad hair day…
It looks angry, perhaps because he could not get an appointment with his stylist. Do they keep wallabies away?
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😂 haha… must keep the wallabies way I haven’t seen one in the garden at all….
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One of the documentaries about ‘Searching for Sasquatch’ was filmed near my home, and the producers initially wanted to come to my home to search for Sasquatch. There was some animal out there that was quite large, moved about quite quickly, and weirdest of all, spoke what sounded like Vietnamese. I tried to talk to it before. I thought it was a neighbor just messing around with me. I still do not know what it was; although I seriously doubt that Sasquatch live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was weird and sort of creepy, but not nearly as scary as the wallaby.
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Now I would say that is way more scary than our wallabies…
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OH HECK NO!
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Love it!
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Thanks Sue
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😊
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He looks as though he is smiling for you.
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A very wicked smile too Jude …
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Ahh I feel its pain!
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Ouch….
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So cute.
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He certainly is…
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We have kookaburras who come and visit though they do upset our resident breeding pair of wagtails! They are busy bringing up another couple of fledgling chicks in the garden at present though they will soon send them on their way to fend for themselves. We are a haven for wagtails – they love our garden!
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The kookaburras are about the only birds that can shrug off the hassling and dive bombing from the noisy minors. Do you get them in your place?
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No we don’t get them here though I looked up their distribution on a map and saw that they are now in a few places in south west WA but mainly inland from what I could see. They sound aggressive!
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They are and they gang up even on crows and kookaburras and then dive bomb them till they fly away. When we moved here we had all the lovely native rosellas and parrots, even king parrots but then they arrived and now the only occasional visitor is the rainbow lorikeet. So sad
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That is sad Pauline – not sure what the answer is now that they have been introduced 😦
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Hope tey don’t come your way…
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