AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Old Friends Meet Again


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Old friends meet again one Autumn morning, Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.
We are quite convinced a little family (5) of kookaburras has followed us when we moved late 2008 from Arthurs Seat mountain top to Dromana Hills (a little further down the mountain).
One kookaburra likes to be hand fed.
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Camera Critters #54
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Kookaburra friend
Bonding with a wise spirit
Peaceful suspension
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Late afternoon return
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A little kookaburra laughter before flying home in the sunset light
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12 comments:

maryt/theteach said...

How wonderful to have made friends with this kookaburra! :)

Baruch said...

Great photos! I just love kookaburra's - when they laugh it's just so infectious that I laugh too :)

A Wild Thing said...

Funny you should mention this, as I was sitting on my front porch this morning, the most beautiful, sweet song you have ever heard...a meadow lark. I looked up at the usual perch they sing from every morning and there he was.

I hope this is the same male that comes back every year to sing to me from aloft, at the very peak of the old walnut tree, too far for a picture, but I watch him through my binoculars every morning with my cup of coffee in my rocking chair...ahhh the glory of spring.

Wonderful shot of a well fed companion, they are so cute. See ya at SSS...bunches of hugs back attcha!

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Cloudia said...

Just wonderful pictures and story today.
GAY your life must be!
Aloha, Gemma

i beati said...

this is so fascinating and special sandy

Unknown said...

I love Kookaburras and their laugh. You can't help laughing in return :-)

Cool photos..

Dee & Dylan said...

Great shots ,how cool to have a kookaburra as friendly as that... (:-)

floreta said...

i've never seen a bird in action like that before. very cool!

Vicky said...

yes, cool indeed. to be so bonded with a kookaburra!

Müge Tekil said...

Hello Gemma! I've never seen that bird before! Your third shot is very very nice! Have a happy day!

Anonymous said...

I adore the kookaburras at the OKC Zoo, & I'd love to see them in the wild!

Thanks for sharing!

Dianne said...

the first photo is so touching!

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