The photo competition, number 29 asked for photos to illustrate what the weather was doing in your area of the world… and I thought there would be masses of entries – but no, only a few!
OZ posted a laid back cat, sunning on a wooden beam – wonderful blue skies behind. How envious I felt.
Soutie posted several pictures, here, here, here and here illustrating rather extreme wet and windy weather in South Africa. My favourite of all these was the third, where the damage and the scale of the trees is clearly seen.
Boadicea posted a picture of a kookaburra in an old gum tree, and this for me is the winner.
I may be biased, but I love those wonderful birds and their call reminds me so much of camping trips in 1987 -88! I can almost smell the eucalyptus…. But more than that it is a beautiful photo: the composition is balanced, with the branch shape, the proportion of blue against the silvered bark, and the tufts of the bird’s head-feathers echoed in the sharp spikes of the broken off tree stump.
Thank you Boadicea, and over to you!
Boadicea's Chariot 
Well done Boa, thanks Pseu 🙂
Good on ya, Boadicea!
Takes me back to Girl Guide days and this song;
:
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra!
Gay your life must be.
This was in the good old days, before the adjective gay had been hijacked by homosexuals.
Many thanks Pseu! I knew the gum tree was a favourite perch for this young kookaburra – and I hoped I’d manage to get a decent picture of it before your deadline!
I’ll have a good think about the next ‘subject’ and post later today.
Is this near your home?
It’s in the garden – just a couple of metres from the patio. The kookaburras sit on the fence and have been known to sit on one of the chairs while we’re outside. It always amazes me how fearless the birds here seem to be. This one seems to be rather young – well I assume it is because of its downy head.
I’ve been trying to get some photos of the bush turkeys, pain that they are, that wander through the garden and land on the patio roof with a clang… Ugly brutes – and inclined to dig up the plants.
Wow! Where are you location wise?.. name a place I may know!
Australia? 🙂
Mornin all. Congrats,Boadicea and thanks to Pseu for the competition.
OZ
Janus… like, der….
Boadicea, may I also ask if you have Australian magpies visiting your patch. I love their call too…