I'm not a birder but I do like seeing birds that I've never seen before. And there are some pretty interesting birds here: fabulously beautiful parrots that make horrible screaming noises and dainty little fairy wrens that are bright blue and so delicate. But my favourite have to be the kookaburas with their insane cackling laugh.
Kookaburas gather outside the uncles' house every morning and evening. The old guy who lives in the apartment downstairs feeds them so they come in flocks. Kookaburas are apparently quite a problem bird in the area. They eat duckings on the golf course and baby fairy wrens which are bright blue and just lovely. They dive-bomb the mailman as they hate that he rides around on a bit delivering mail. And they also dive-bomb people who walk past their nests so some locals wear their sunglasses on the back on their heads to fool the birds. Blayne noted that they seem to be the jerks of the bird world.
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