My regular walk takes me along a track that has bush on one side and trees all around.
Anyone who has walked through the Aussie bush will know you rarely see animals. Except ants and birds.
Depending on the season and time of day I will see, or more likely hear, different birds.
On my walks around the bush near me, I have seen and heard several lyrebirds. Their sound is very distinctive. In the two times I actually spotted one, I was led to the bird by the unusual sounds. It imitates all manner of things – mechanical and living.
Among my favourite is the little finch. Always in a mass pack, they flit so quickly among low shrubs and tall grass. It is their movement I love. And the challenge of spotting one.
Yesterday Dar said she’d like to hear a kookaburra in the wild. And she wondered if it would become annoying.
The thing is Aussie birds tend not to sing all day. (In fact some are horrid screechers so singing and chirping are not the right words. Have I told you how much I hate cockatoos?)
I never find kookaburras annoying. They don’t call all the time. Mainly they communicate to other kookaburras of an evening.
As luck would have it on my walk as the sun was setting today, I came across a group of kookaburras who were winging it home. They called to one another, gathering all together before they disappeared towards the bush. I whipped out my phone and recorded them. You cannot really see them but they flew between trees as the headed off towards the bush.
So here’s one for you Dar? Enjoy.
How can this sound not bring a smile to your face? (Don’t stop the video too soon. The horrid screeching towards the end is a cockatoo. Shit things. Noisey and they peck apart housing, fencing and sensor tiles for the blind as well as tip bins over.)
lucinda sans 