Kookaburra by onewing

Kookaburra

Thanks so much for all your lovely comments and favs for my koala photo yesterday. Sorry I haven't had chance to get back to you all yet, but I have been out most of the day.

I took a friend out shopping and for a coffee this morning while David took her husband to a hospital appointment in Newcastle.

Later I had a doctors appointment to get the results of my recent surgery and David and I are out this evening. It has been a long day.

This is another photo taken yesterday. It was a bit like an episode of a David Attenborough show yesterday here. Not only did we have the koala in the garden, we also had a feral rabbit digging up our front lawn, the regular kookaburras visiting waiting to be fed. Plus our regular lorikeets and butcher birds wanting to be fed too.

The blue tongue lizard who has been hibernating under our log shed woke up and had stroll around the garden too.

While I was photographing the koala yesterday, I noticed three possum dreys in three of our trees. Two dreys I know are abandoned, but not so sure about the third one. David spotted a ring tailed possum in the garden a few days ago so maybe the third drey is occupied.

As I said I am out this evening so won't be able to catch up until tomorrow.
Beautiful kookaburra capture.
August 8th, 2017  
Wonderful shot...Fav
August 8th, 2017  
Super shot Babs !
August 8th, 2017  
Great capture, Babs...
August 8th, 2017  
So close and personal. Great capture.
August 8th, 2017  
Lovely shot - fav
August 8th, 2017  
Lovely capture Babs. It is a shame the kookas don't prey on the rabbits :)
August 8th, 2017  
Wonderful. I love how the background works against the bird
August 8th, 2017  
Haha Babs, definitely a zoo of some kind! You must have a healthy garden.
August 8th, 2017  
Fantastic fav
August 8th, 2017  
Hope you got some good news about the surgery. A fabulous shot!
August 8th, 2017  
lovely closeup Babs. Hope all went well
August 8th, 2017  
This is a beautiful shot . Great close up, Hope news was good from your appt.
August 8th, 2017  
Phew! Action packed day...hope all the news was good. & BTW, very jolly kookaburra.
August 8th, 2017  
lovely brown eyes
August 8th, 2017  
Aw, what a good looking guy.
August 8th, 2017  
Great shot, it's good that you can get so close to wildlife in your garden.
August 8th, 2017  
Very cute close up shot.
August 8th, 2017  
Lovely capture, Babs. I was surprised to hear kookas tonight as I was coming home from Camera Club. It was 10pm!
August 8th, 2017  
Great close up and details :)
August 8th, 2017  
Great capture
August 8th, 2017  
A lovely close up capture. Fav!! 😀
August 8th, 2017  
Nicely caught.
August 8th, 2017  
Hope your results were what you wanted? This is a gorgeous Kookaburra - love the catchlight in his eye. Such fun and beautiful birds. If I close my eyes, I can hear him laugh!
August 8th, 2017  
Awesome shot!
August 8th, 2017  
You never stop! Hope the results are good for all concerned! Your Kookaburra is a handsome bird!
August 8th, 2017  
Just a beautiful bird, love your capture of him. You have a wildlife menagerie it seems, or maybe your own private zoo! I sure like this little fellow.
August 8th, 2017  
Nice one babs
August 8th, 2017  
Very nice shot. Great detail
August 8th, 2017  
Seems like you could make a wildlife documentary from your garden. What a lovely sight. hope all is going well with your health.
August 8th, 2017  
A cool closeup fav
August 8th, 2017  
Great capture
August 8th, 2017  
Wonderful capture of this beautiful bird.
August 9th, 2017  
An excellent shot.
August 9th, 2017  
Wonderful capture Babs, you are having an Australian wildlife week
August 9th, 2017  
Excellent capture of this beautiful bird! :-)
August 9th, 2017  
@hermann The rabbits are quite cute Sal as long as they stay outside our garden. They have been quite a problem close to the beach and have been digging holes on the dunes, but some have escaped up the hill to our house.
August 9th, 2017  
@365projectorgjenfurj Not a healthy garden Jen, just a healthy supply of food for them all.
August 9th, 2017  
I love its name.
August 9th, 2017  
@cruiser @carole_sandford @s4sayer @casablanca @happypat @helenhall thanks. Our resident kookaburras are so tame.
Surgery went not according to plan because the locum surgeon who dealt with it all didn't have all the previous test results etc to hand (according to him that is). (My surgeon is away until September) All my medical history is on the system and I have spent the day obtaining copies of the results, getting x rays and test results on cd and collecting the results of the reports relevant to this particular surgery so I can take them along to the hospital when I next go in a couple of weeks time. I suspect the surgeon made a real balls up of the whole procedure, so he is going to get a mouthful from me when I see him. The rest of the hospital staff including the nurses etc have all been so helpful in giving me the information I need.
August 9th, 2017  
@onewing so sorry to hear about the mess up. Hope it is retrievable and can be sorted somehow.
August 9th, 2017  
@onewing Oh so sorry to read this - I do wish you all the best with finding out what's happened and what's needed.
August 9th, 2017  
@helenhall @casablanca It will be sorted out and I won't let this clown treat me again.
August 9th, 2017  
@onewing haha. They have trained you well.
August 9th, 2017  
@onewing Kick Ass Babs! :)
August 9th, 2017  
Babs, it sounds like you live in a nature reserve.. i cannot imagine how that would be.. words sometimes fail..
This particular image is, imho, superb.. the detail in the eye and feather is quite phenomenal. i never knew their beaks are so colourful.. i like the PoV, instead of the usual straight on shot, it gives a view of the top of the bird's head, downward..

How horrid for you to need to deal with this debacle.. sending hugs..
August 9th, 2017  
@onewing thank goodness you have got al your details Babs! You did well but shouldn't have had to go through all that! Sharpen your tongue for September!
August 9th, 2017  
These are such interesting look birds. Good portrait with a lot of detail here.
August 9th, 2017  
what a cutie
August 11th, 2017  
Great close-up! Sounds like your backyard is a veritable wildlife refuge!
August 12th, 2017  
Such a fabulous shot Babs. Sounds like you live in a fabulous area.
August 13th, 2017  
Great picture. All we get are chit chats and geckos.
August 15th, 2017  
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