This afternoon, trudging disconsolately back from the Azure Kingfisher
place without having seen an Azure Kingfisher, I espied a Laughing
Kookaburra.
At first it was peering intently into a jumble of fallen logs and
branches. It glanced skywards and then stretched its head and beak so
that beak, head and body formed an elongated shape in order, I assume,
to look as much like a broken branch as possible. Tawny Frogmouths are
far more stylish when they do the same thing. Looking up, I saw why the
Kookaburra was apeing a Frogmouth... an adult White-bellied Sea-eagle
flying by, heading south.
Once the Sea-eagle was gone, the Kookaburra changed from potential prey
to potential predator, assumed its normal posture, and began peering
intently into the jumble of logs and branches.
Con
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