Kookaburras, cockatoos, parrots and emus are some of the well known Australian birds. The first 3 can be seen in suburban areas and in the last few months we've noticed that there seem to be more kookaburras around. These iconic birds are sometimes called 'laughing jackasses' as that is what the early white settlers thought their call was like. Here is a You Tube video of a kookaburra laughing.
In the last week or so we've had kookaburras sitting on our veranda railing...
Sitting on the side fence...
They have been sitting on the clothes line...completely ignoring the noisy miner bird ( a pesky bird that likes to swoop on other birds) and the magpies at ground level.
This photo was taken last week and the hot weather we've had and are still having is rather evident. We've had some rain since then so the brown patch has greened up somewhat.
And today we had a kooka sitting on the BBQ which is at one end of our side veranda...no photo of him/her there but then the kookaburra flew to the clothesline which is a favourite spot of many birds that visit the garden...but today was special! The wind was blowing so the rotary clothes line started turning...so the bird was having a ride on the clothes line just like heaps of Aussie children have done over the years! 😆
And DH filmed it!
After a lot of mucking around I think I've finally got a link to that video that might actually work! The link will go to my Box account where I store a lot of documents. Often when people ask me for a knitting pattern, I send them a link to my Box account as I have a few knitting files in it. So here is the link to the cute video of a kookaburra having a ride on our clothesline! lol
https://app.box.com/s/5bomkokkoiw8mp8usatkcj0nwosi2en0
Because it is a mp4 file it does need to download...hope it works!!
In the last week or so we've had kookaburras sitting on our veranda railing...
Sitting on the side fence...
They have been sitting on the clothes line...completely ignoring the noisy miner bird ( a pesky bird that likes to swoop on other birds) and the magpies at ground level.
And today we had a kooka sitting on the BBQ which is at one end of our side veranda...no photo of him/her there but then the kookaburra flew to the clothesline which is a favourite spot of many birds that visit the garden...but today was special! The wind was blowing so the rotary clothes line started turning...so the bird was having a ride on the clothes line just like heaps of Aussie children have done over the years! 😆
And DH filmed it!
After a lot of mucking around I think I've finally got a link to that video that might actually work! The link will go to my Box account where I store a lot of documents. Often when people ask me for a knitting pattern, I send them a link to my Box account as I have a few knitting files in it. So here is the link to the cute video of a kookaburra having a ride on our clothesline! lol
https://app.box.com/s/5bomkokkoiw8mp8usatkcj0nwosi2en0
Because it is a mp4 file it does need to download...hope it works!!
