The other night we were sitting watching telly when we heard and felt an almighty bang.
I got up and looked in the bedroom and then out the window. Lying on the ground there was a young Kookaburra that had flown into the window. The poor thing looked dead with it's wings splayed out, it was out cold. I rushed out with a towel to pick it up and when I touched it it stirred. It managed to sit itself up but was totally disorientated. We watched it for awhile until it made some grooming movements and left it alone to recover. After about an hour I thought I had better get it moving before dark and when I went out it flew up into a tree.

Poor thing, must have had a blinder of a headache. Hopefully it will hang around in gratitude for your care and eat all those huntsmen

Thanks Bundaleer Actually I'm hoping they will eat all the snakes.

Huntsman? Oh my, those huge big spiders we see on "I'm a celebrity get me out of here" Thats the only thing that puts me off living in Australia is the spiders!!! I have been known to call my husband home from work to remove a spider from the house, and they are nowhere near as big as yours!!!

What a beautiful bird, alas we only have sparrows and starlings in our garden, oh and the odd robin!

Did he manage to recover from his ordeal?

A lovely looking bird - hope it was ok

He flew up into a large gum tree so I think he was OK. We have lots of birdlife here. Kookaburra, Currawongs, Blue Wrens, Scarlet Robins, Rosellas and Sparrows. We also get other native birds such as the Spotted Pardelot and many others. Apart from the slitheries and the crawlies the wildlife here is wonderful.

What a good looking bird, hope it get along well.

I'll be thinking of a song we sings when I was little "Cocaburra sits at the old gum three.......I don't remember any more.

You wally

Yes - I had to sing that at school too...... ".... merry, merry king of the bush is he. Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra"

'Laugh, kookaburra' is it? Good grief, they're cruel to kids in England! Mind you, when I was at high school we had to sing Nymphs and Shepherds; acne and all. But I digress - yesterday we had a sparrowhawk zoom in and pluck a small bird off the feeders immediately outside the living room window. How it managed to judge its braking speed to avoid crashing into the glass I do not know. Good thing the windows haven't been washed for a while...

'Laugh, kookaburra' is it? Good grief, they're cruel to kids in England!

You think that's bad! As I recall the next line is "..... gay your life must be. HA HA HA". (and we had to really shout the ha, ha, ha's). Oh the joys of a home counties girls school.

Now then everybody, all together now...

Sue

yes you have better memory than me. I am from sweden and we also sing this song in school.

I find it really funny that schools in Europe singing songs about Kookaburra's, then again we have to sing Freya Sharka (sp?) I'm sure you know what I mean

I think you mean Frere jacques Sam. Hearing words incorrectly reminds me
of a journey taking Charlotte to school when she was 5 years old. Charlotte was always at
her most talkative first thing in the morning and when I was trying to concentrate on my
driving and what sort of day I was going to have at work.

On on particular morning Charlotte asked me what a puffit was, not sure what she meant I asked
her to repeat it and then repeat it again. Still not understanding what she meant and getting
a little agitated to say the least I said I don't know what you mean Charlotte there is no
such thing as a Puffit, to which she replied that at school the children sing a song called
I'm going to paint a Puffit (perfect) picture.

I realised when I went to bed that Sharka was Jaques DUH! Been a long time since doing french.