I mean it. I really, really hate the rotten bloody things and to quote Ted Bullpit I think that someone “should blow all kookaburras up!”
Now before the hating kookaburras is un-Australian brigade get here and try to re-educate me,I should let you know that in Tasmania, kookaburras are an introduced species. Rotten feathery,flying, ferals that they are, were introduced into Tasmania in 1956 much to the dismay of the local bird population. They prey upon my little native birds, the honeyeaters, fairy wrens and robins. Their young are all fair game for these horrid creatures.
Why am I having a rant about bloody kookaburras today? It was lovely and foggy this morning and I was actually inspired to pick up the camera and go outside and take a couple of happy snaps. I was happily wandering around in the bush listening to the native birds calling when it went very quiet. Into the sudden stillness a pair of the rotten things let rip with their bloody racket and I wished that I had a gun.
I have noticed a decline in the number of native birds around the place lately and I am reminded of Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring.
I don’t know where I am going with this post today except that the state of Tasmania’s environment is depressing me.
So here are some photos I took this morning…
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those photos are gorgeous. I don’t like sulphur crested cockatoos. My bad.
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Gah, bastard birds they are.
Did any of my photos work?
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Oh, boy, imagine what a little kudzu would do over there… I didn’t know that about kookaburras in Taz.
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Your photos, lovely as they are, seem to reflect your mood.
Lou is right. But the pictures are stunning.
I’ve never heard of Kookaburras before, I came up here wondering what new word you had made up this time!
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I love the word kookaburra, and those photos.
cobwebs & mist, always nice.
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Love the pictures!
Now I’ll think of you each time I read my kids’ nighttime story where K is for Kookaburra who started to laugh out loud and Koala scolded “quiet now!”
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I feel pretty much the same way about cats, well the ones that are left to roam outside anyway. Recently one has been haunting our garden and I found two partially dismembered robins last week. No idea where the cat is from but if I find any more corpses I’m going to have a word with the Ranger to see if anything can be done. We lost enough little birds with the big fire in January, and the lack of rain since then until recently hasn’t helped them either. Some areas in Perth have very stringent cat regulations now, not sure about down here though.
Beautiful spiderwebs, Kim. I love the fence reflected in the puddle too. We have Kookaburras here, but they don’t seem to live around here, they just come down from the hills in summer I think. I didn’t know they killed other baby birds. They’re from the kingfisher family so I thought they ate fish.
Your photos are great! Would you like to publish some of your photos on one of my friend’s blog with a link to your blog?
She wants some photos to show Wild Tasmania. Her blog is in Russian.
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What neat spider webs!
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Love your photos, as always.
(((hugs))) for your wildlife.
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*Sorry* I love kookaburras.
I also didn’t know they were introduced.
Beautiful photos, especially the spider webs!
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I’m sorry. You’re pictures are beautiful but sad, like you at the moment I guess.
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