I am pretty sure this is a Pallid Cuckoo. It is very like a couple of others but this is Perth WA and the Pallid seems most likely.
I was watchin this guy and it was flying around a lot hunting fior grubs. I was about to take a shot of it in a tree when it flew straight toward me and landed on the twigs in direct sunlight. Our back verhandah has a lot of shrubs in pots and kames a pretty good hide. I am really straining to think of better light and a better perch for a shot.
Interestingly, we have a couple of these raound here. Theire normal call is a repeated short mellodious whistle, rising slightly with each whistle and repeated maybe 8-10 times. Pause. Start again.
When this one was hunting, it was giving an almost kite-like call: a series of whistles _falling_ as they are repeated. Maybe 7 in a burst. I have not heard that before and have not seen it mentioned as their call.
This is quite cropped. I have a 70-200 lens, but it is superb quality (it never ceases to stun me actually) , so it takes quite a crop..Unfortunately there is slight blow-out on the breast, where the un hits it.....a trap I should have avoided.
I have had help here a fdew times so I just wanted to share my luck and actually be able to ID a bird!
I hope pepple enjoy it.
EDIT: HAH! Goo light! 
that's a goo pic
Peter
HAH! Thanks...I thin.
Considering the habits of birds, I suppose I am lucky it's not a poo gic....i had an unfortuntately-timed one of a Darter once...fish is obvioulsy not a solid diaet.
Lovely shot. I got one the other day not as good as yours though. They are a lovely looking bird arent they.
Thanks cathshane. It was not all luck as I had been following the thing around. But it was luck that it came and sat for me right on that perch, just as I was about to take that desperation shot in a messy tree. Not often they are that cooperative
These guys are a pretty bird. Very delicate shading and the tail is wonderfully marked (my next project is to catch that better).
However the call can get a bit tiresome in Spring. I read they are called the brain-fever bird because of that sometimes interminable calling. It sounds beautiful for maybe the first 20 repetitions in 10 minutes!
I had never seen one until this winter, when this guy came visiting. I think there may be a pair and this is definitely a territory. Here's hoping. The wattle-birds are giving this guy curry, as is usual with wattle birds. I hope that does not make us lose him/them.
Funny story about wattle birds. I was sitting in a park once and there was a magpie lark on the grass, just walking about minding its own business and pecking away. A wattle bird kept dive-bombing and attacking the magpie lark. In the end the WB made the mistake of landing nearby. The ML literally flew over and jumped up and down on the WB....I mean literally jumping up and down. I fell over laughing. The ML must have jumped on that WB about 10 times, not givint the WB a chance to get free. The WB flew away and, as is the way of defeated bullies, never came back. I would have given anything for a video camera.
Lovely shot of a goo Cuckoo
Well done for stalking and catching. I love your little stories..... and I have seen ML do the same thign to birds...they are soooo fearless !
Keep stalking and posting more goo pics ..they are very welcome.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Thanks for the reply.
No stalking for a few days. I splipped on wet tiles last night and hurt my knee and ankle
MLs are also a bit loopy IMO. I have seen one sitting on a traffic light tower, landing on cars when the lights stopped them, walking around, then going back to the tower when the cars took off. This went on for as long as I watched: maybe 10 minutes. Very strange.