They sit completely still on a low branch of the jacaranda, the laughing kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae) which visit Matthew’s garden. The garden has been almost completely neglected and is in the process of re-wilding—an interesting experiment, or perhaps re-wilding is an over generous descriptor.
I wonder what the kookaburras might find there. Lizards? Though only small ones. Rats? Someone told me kookaburras were hunting the rats. I guess if they can snatch the meat out of the sandwich you are eating I guess they can get a rat!
If they catch my movement behind the hedge, they fly off. I am too close and they are far from being tame.
