Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Kookaburra in Sydney today
From: justin at sprawl.com.au (Justin Viiret)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:09:07 +1100
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Hi,

In my experience, kookaburras have always looked a bit scruffy -- we had
them in the backyard all the time where I grew up in Adelaide. Here's
another one:

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/jviiret/13789448/>

They occasionally eat snakes here, too -- one day I wandered out of the
house with the camera and _just_ managed to squeeze off two frames of one
that had just caught its lunch, a young brown snake:

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/jviiret/12778764/>

jv


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Hugh Thompson <hewthompson at mac.com> 
wrote:

> Howard - thought this guy looked a bit scruffy, is this normal for
> Kookaburras, or has he had a rough night on the Fosters
>
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