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Look who I found on my Garden Fence..

18 years ago

I heard this laughing and raced on to the back decking and I was quite surprised to see this Kooka so close.

I think it was looking at a skink but it was very close to where the baby Bearded Dragons live

So after a couple of photo's I sent it on it merry way:

Its got that OH FOOD !! look about it:

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Yesterday I seen a crow rip apart one of the Noisy Miners it upset me no end.

Certainly dont need incidents like that happening in my sight again:....... Cheers..MM.

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Kiwi_oz
18 years ago
Sure looks peckish to me.
Lovely pics.
Heather
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goldhills
18 years ago
Great photo, though shame about the noisy miner. That's mother nature I suppose but I wish she wasn't so cruel.
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User
18 years ago
Beautiful pics MM.
Cheers,
Dee.
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ginnybee
18 years ago
Just great pics. MM you have captured all the details on a beautiful bird.
Jan.
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triciac
18 years ago
How nice to see the kookas coming into your garden like that. Great capture of it too. That's one thing I hate about looking at nature films, we know it is survival of the fittest, but I don't like to see them preying on one another either, especailly when one is injured.
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lakota
18 years ago
Great pics, MM. I love kookas, we're looking after 2 at the moment.

Cheers, Jules
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annie_____
18 years ago
Great photos and he does look a bit cheeky, doesn't he?
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alisonoz_gw
18 years ago
Yes, lovely shots. Sorry about your experience, the minah may have been ailing, my experience is they are absolute thugs and in a pack will drive out all the kookas, currawongs, crows and maggies. Usually even one alone is pretty fast and a force to be reckoned with (ask Holly, she got dive-bombed for months in the back-yard as we had evenaually had 8 nests in the Leopard tree!!!)
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trancegemini_wa
18 years ago
wow, great shot mm, that kooka is so pretty! I didnt realise they had such nice markings on their feathers
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Original Author
18 years ago
Hi TG and Thanks.. Yes they are a pretty bird, we often have those ones with the blue on the wings.
They could be called Kingfishers ?? Though none have been around for a while.
It certainly make a difference when you have a telephoto lens and the subject is close.
Cheers...MM.
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trancegemini_wa
18 years ago
hi mm, I thought kingfisher when I saw it for some reason. I think they might be a bit smaller than the kookas, but that's about all I know! my magpies pick off skinks from the retaining wall out the front and it kills me when I see it, but I guess that's what nature intended.

whatever your little fellow is, he sure is cute
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goldhills
18 years ago
TG, A kookaburra is a type of knigfisher. The blue kingfishers look like kookas but are much smaller, 15-20cms and a beautiful electric blue (best way to describe it) colour. You would know it if you saw it. There are other varieties but they are the most common.

The blue winged kookas have a pale blue where MMs is white on the wing. Blue winged are generally found on the eastern coast, usually in the northern parts. When I was a child in Brisbane, we raised a blue wing when it fell out of a nest. We never locked it up so used to come and go for many years.
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trancegemini_wa
18 years ago
hi goldhills, thanks for the info, that makes a lot more sense. Do all the kingfishers make the same "laugh", or is that just kookaburras? I grew up in the bush and I used to hear kookaburras all the time but didnt get to see them very much (not that I really looked that hard :) )

the blue ones sound lovely
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Original Author
18 years ago
Hi GH and TG yesterday I did a bit of research seems we only have two kookaburra's in Australia, the one above the "Laughing Kookaburra" and the "Blue Winged" which surprised me as I took some pics of other kookas on my block a few weeks back and they had a lot of white on them, maybe they were getting a new coat of feathers hense the lighter colour perhaps they go darker with age. Have a look at the link below for more info. Cheers..MM.

Here is a link that might be useful: Aussie Birds
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