Monday, December 15, 2008



Hmmm, don't know why that pic is so small..anyway, we seem to be in channel-billed cuckoo country at the moment...these large cuckoos with their large curved bills fly down from New Guinea in late spring and lay their eggs, like other cuckoos, in other birds' nests. Can you imagine the fright from some smalllish bird when junior starts to develop into something like this! They have taken to calling their gargling strangulated calls from around 5am lately...then the kookaburras joined them followed by maggies and currawongs...the dawn chorus around here is way more orchestral or operatic!

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