Kookaburra

[wombatie]

This is a not so small little visitor that comes around every afternoon, he lets us know he's here by laughing and then sitting on the neighbors clothes line.  There are usually 2, the other ones got lovely blue marking on its wings.

Marg

[Phantom Scroller]

Lovely is that about the size of a magpie over here.? Roly

[Scrappile]

Cool!  I looked at your picture and thought it looked sorta like our Kingfishers only ours are a different color.  I looked yours up and it is a Kingfisher.  Ours don't laugh as you say, least I have never heard one.  We rarely see them around here.  Had one fly into my living room window once, Bam!  Went out and he/she was lying on the deck, alive but out cold.  I picked it up, sat it on the deck railing.  It sat there all hunkered down for almost 30 minutes, then it managed to fly to a nearby tree.  Sat there for another 30 minutes and then flew off.  It really rang it's bell, but hopefully it survived.

Edited August 27, 2018 by Scrappile

[amazingkevin]

I'll take one, nice birdy to come to see you every day! I got to quit feeding the raccoon here $2.00 bags of dog food. It's getting scary big now and was so skinny and gray before. Drinks a lot of water too. More work for me to maintain but i like having her around. The blue jays catch the peanut in the shell when I throw it up in the air. And no I'm not it's trainer it just happened when i threw one to a squirrel and missed. The squirrels catch them too.

[wombatie]

21 hours ago, Phantom Scroller said:

Lovely is that about the size of a magpie over here.? Roly

Yes Roly, your Magpies are short and fat like a kookaburra and our Magpies are tall and slender and very dangerous during breeding season.

Marg

[tgiro]

Awesome! I have hawks and horned owls drop by now and then. The owls only come at night and wake me up calling to one another. They like to sit on my radio antennas.