A young kookaburra has been visiting the garden of late. I spotted him on the woodshed late Friday evening but couldn't get a good shot of him through the kitchen window. Here's a not very clear one I took of him earlier, perched in the Chinese Silk tree, that shades the back garden.
I've seen him catching the big grasshoppers that have suddenly appeared in the garden from who knows where. Sometimes they are beaten on a tree branch and devoured straight away, whereas at other times, he flies off towards the river, gripping the grasshopper firmly in his beak. Kookaburras breed at this time of year, and as last years offspring help to nurture the latest family members, I'm guessing there's a nest in one of the hollows in the trees growing along the river's edge.
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