Random pix

[zeropluszero]

I think just about every bird is mating on this one branch outside my house currently, I've seen at least wattlebirds, kookaburra and bronzewing. I assume the branch charges by the hour.
The bronzewing even tried to land about 30cm away from the kookaburras while they were going at it, maybe their booking went over.

 

[HamishR]

I was just walking down a local street this arvo and a kookaburra was sitting on a front fence. Couldn't be bothered moving as I went by - I must have been less than a metre from him, looking eye to eye! They're not actually native to the west but there are plenty of them around here. We only have the laughing kooky, not the blue wings. But even the laughing kookaburra has a bit of blue on the wings.