KathiesPhotos.com Photography Blog » kookaburra http://kathiesphotos.com A Photo A Day Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:18:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Young Kookaburra http://kathiesphotos.com/2010/08/02/young-kookaburra-3/ http://kathiesphotos.com/2010/08/02/young-kookaburra-3/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:02:11 +0000 Kathie http://kathiesphotos.com/?p=2289

I paid a visit last Friday to one of my favourite places, Grant’s Picnic Ground, which is only around 10 mins drive from my home and halfway between my daughter’s and my homes.  So I will often drop in there after I’ve been visiting Melanie.

That day there were quite a few kookaburras hanging around the kiosk, although it had closed up and there were no patrons. However, it allowed me to get up close and personal with my camera.

This is a young kookburra with an older one behind it.

Two kookaburras

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Seen in our grounds on the weekend, this Kookaburra eyes a worm from a tree, flies down and grabs it, then swallows it down.

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Now it’s a bit cooler and we’ve had some rain too, the kookaburras have returned to our property.  I missed seeing them every day.

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Got my zoom lens back, yay!

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

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This one is a bit closer – I moved a couple of steps, took a shot, moved a couple more steps, took another shot, till I got close as I dared using a regular lens.  Thankfully he didn’t fly off – think he’s getting used to seeing me in the garden with a camera hanging off my neck.

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Taken in my backyard early morning – I took some distance shots and then gradually moved closer to get better shots of him – all with my 18-55 mm lens as I don’t have the zoom at the moment. He seemed happy to just sit and watch for worms and then occasionally check on me as well.

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This guy wanted to know what the clicking was I think.

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I think this guy has a comical looking face.  Don’t you?

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