Winter Visitor
A shy bird, this solitary kookaburra. Only visits close when I am inside for some time, to take some of the food meant for the butcher-birds.
Otherwise s/he can be seen through the kitchen window around the wider garden diving from high to the undergrowth.
Searching, following the tell-tale signs of the unlucky creatures too small and slow to evade such deadly attention.
Survival is the name of the game. We all play it, refining our ways as we go.
And then … clearly.
© Mark Berkery … Click on those pictures for a closer look …
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Nature's Place 
Beautiful pictures!
Thanks …
Kookabura sits on the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, kookabura laugh
Kookabura gay your life must be
Thank you for the always stunning pictures, Mark.
Take care.
Thank you A…
Too sweet, and so alert. Beautiful pics Mark.
Thanks K…
Lovely. I love kooka chooks. They sometimes come to my garden. Less now that the council allowed the trees behind our property to be bulldozed. Kookaburras will become extinct just like all other wildlife, if senseless land owners and councils continue on their greedy paths of destruction and constructions without an real environmental plan.
Thanks Chrissy.
Human nature, it’s just the way it is for now. Can’t stop it ‘out there’ until I can stop it ‘in here’. The Earth will survive us, I am sure. :-)
Have been enjoying your photos for several years now…thankyou.
Thanks B….