Kookaburra

[PG07]

Just caught him before he flew away. He was on our rain gauge looking for some insects I suspect. I have seen them around lately must be gourmet food here.;)
I used my 75-300mm twin kit lens 100 ISO f5 1/500sec focal 210mm.Manual

[kenyc]

Very Nice and the rain gauge gives a scale of size. :)

KAC

[canonloader]

Very nice shot Peter. A bird I'll never get to see. Do they make any noise?

[witchy]

Very nice shot Peter. A bird I'll never get to see. Do they make any noise?


They sure do, they laugh!..It is an awesome sound. I love listening to the young ones learning to "laugh" they can take a bit to get going..Kookaburras would have to be one of my all time favourite birds, however I was recently told that they kill the little blue wrens and scarlet robins :( (both of which we have here)..


Fantastic pic! whenever I have had my camera the kookaburras are usually up the tallest tree. I often see them on fences and posts whilst driving in my car!!...one day I will learn to take my camera with me everywhere :)

[PG07]

Very nice shot Peter. A bird I'll never get to see. Do they make any noise?

Yes they do make a noise Mitch.I don't know if you have heard that they are

called The laughing 'Jackass'. They actually laugh out loud. Listen here

http://fcfhsp.customer.netspace.net.au/kooka.wav

They only do when they are in 'song' you could say, not any other time.

Thanks for the replies.

[canonloader]

The link didn't work for me. :(

[witchy]

try this link..The kookaburra call is the 5th one down :)

http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/birds.html

[canonloader]

Thanks Witchy, that worked. And I have heard them, primarily in every old Tarzan movie I've ever seen. :D