A tale to start November. Well, today was my daylily morning tea with lots of eaties where I invite people to see the garden in flower. But, the major part of achieving it can only be done by outwitting one bird.
The Giant Brown Kingfisher.
As soon as he saw the food going out he arrived on cue. I don't fed predatory birds, especially the nest predators. If you do, you end up with a lot of meat-eating birds and nothing else. This bird is fed by a lady two houses down. I love him but not when you are having a do with food. He will fly straight into the plates and hook anything edible and sit there and eat it. Another of his favorite tricks is to take the food off your fork in a fly by.
You will know the bird as the Laughing Kookaburra. And it is a stunning bird.
So what we did was put out a dish of savory mince. He flew straight into it and ate his full over eight minutes and finally flew up into a gum tree to be harassed by the local honeyeaters. I hosed the mince off the landing and we began to make merry. And the kookaburra laughed too.
We came from here
The thread "Bird Photos, October 2016" in
Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum
