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Subject: [Leica] Kookaburra in Sydney today
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:24:16 +1000
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You'd be a bit scruffy too with the same lifestyle, Justin ;-) Up at dawn to
give a concert then wrestling deadly snakes before breakfast. No wonder they
have to laugh about it
Number eleven on this hit parade for anyone who is interested
http://birdsinbackyards.net/feature/top-40-bird-songs.cfm
Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 17 February 2010 09:09, Justin Viiret <justin at sprawl.com.au> wrote:

> 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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