I went for a wander down to the shops before...get some supplies....have a look at real estate, in the window....


walking home I found a kookaburra sat all puffed up...eyes closed, and looking miserable...


so went back to the supermarket, scrounged an old towel....and brought him/her home....

He/she is tucked into a box in my youngest daughter's room, awaiting the wildlife carer's arrival later today.

I just walked past her room, and hear this strange rustling sound...


I had forgotten about the houseguest, and thought a snake had gotten in...



Does anyone else have strange houseguests?

Did you really or you just messin' with us?

And of course the Australian Stockhorse is still in the paddock we made her with the electric fence....
she is so wonderfully providing us with ample fertiliser for the vege garden...
the strawberries have never looked so perky..


seems we are having a run of unusual houseguests...

You don't think we know what that is, do ya?

I got a whole flock of 'em in my apartment.

Really...


it is sat in a box....on a towel in my daughter's bedroom, as it is cool and dark in there...


seriously, and really , truly..

Actually, I am probably being presumptious and expecting you to know what a kookaburra is...

That's really pretty danged cool, Jess. Sorry I made fun of.

I'll be honest - I had to google kookaburra

Now I have to confess the same. Must be a Yankee!

For a wild animal let a person take it home like that, sounds like it might be sick. Hope it turns out okay when the proper authorities come pick it up.

My dad says he wished he knew about wildlife vets when he was in school, because he told his career counselor that he liked animals and the outdoors, and he was guided into the forestry program.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum treeee
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must beeeeeeeeee

Other than the snakes ,field mice ,Barn swallows and occasional cayote ? Nah I got nuthin

Have no idea if this will work.....I need driving lessons....

WHoa....how do I make them smaller?????


hahahah!!!!!!!! there's a GIANT kookaburra in a box!!!

Holy crap you have a kookaburra bird in your house !

Hahahaha yep.... I did say really truly....


my eldest daughter helped me do the picture...photobucket thing...

We hand feed them, and pat them here....

and have had kookaburras catch some R&R here...

when they have smacked into a window
and have concussion, or ate a whole heap of wasps,

and get belly ache....
that's what this one looks like...
it ate something stingy...

or got bit by a snake as it was eating it...

you made me turn my laptop 90 deg ccw!!

Every australian little kid learns that song in kindergarten....that was so cool Dawnette...

I don't know how to do the twisty turny thing with pics...it's how it loaded...I have to turn my head 90 degrees....