This kookaburra has spent most of today in our yard.
sitting in the gum tree
diving down and grabbing a skink
taking the skink up to our basketball ring to eat
getting ready to eat the skink
taking in the view
watching the garden
diving into the garden and grabbing something (snails?)
taking food onto the fence to eat
Great shots!
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Nice work. I really like the one when it grabbed the skink.
You obviously musn't have a noisy miner problem.... they have totally shredded our netball basket and have started stripping off the plastic coating from the fold out washing line too so they can get at the fibre inside!
I have had a bought nest box for a year now and just don't know what to do with it. I am watching this carefully . do you think a palm tree would be ok to attach it to?
Ours is a difficult garden.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Hi birdie
We have lots of noisy miners every day but they have never damaged anything.
What kind of bird is the nest box designed for? That gives you a clue to what height it needs to be put at. I don't know if you could secure it properly to a palm tree, so it can't fall or twist (but you may be able to, to a big one)
There are two disadvantages of nesting boxes compared with tree hollows:
-they may get too much sun and overheat. I have sometimes had to go out and hose the galah box every hour on a hot day when the birds nested late in the season. So look at the aspect
-they blow around more with strong winds, because they are attached to a branch, meaning that the eggs could roll around and break if a parent wasn't in there and it would also be very uncomfortable for the parent. So pick the thickest, heaviest branch near the trunk of a tree