Happy Birds

If I could be a bird...I would have chosen to be a kookaburra,... because they enjoy a good laugh.

On Saturday morning I was blessed to capture this family of three, sitting in our huge pine tree out back.
They had just finished a chorus of laughter.

Usually a family of crows claim this tree as their abode. However, the kookaburra is King of the Bush, just as we used to sing in that song at school...

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be

So, when the Kookaburra lays their claim somewhere, the other birds move away.
Being a Pine, and not a eucalyptus (gum) tree though, does make a difference.  
Because Kookaburras like to make their homes in a hole, way up in a gum tree.
Those crows almost drove me crazy with their cawing all day long.
Since the kookaburra's have been flying in, I haven't had to put up with the crows.
Instead, every now and then the laughing birds put on a cackling cresendo.

That sound always picks my spirits UP when I am feeling low.
AND... they keep the snakes away.  

Screaming Birds

They're back..
Those screeching Corella's flying in, in the hundreds.
My granddaughter Shiarny went wild shooing them out of our trees.
Our two little dogs ran after her barking.

The birds didn't go far,  just onto the neighbours roof.
Watching and waiting for a chance to return.

They seem to love our tree??

I love to see them free.
Yet  many are caged.
This one  loves the Christmas Bush flowering tree.
(who is watching who?)

 

A beautiful bird, and a beautiful Bible verse.

Psalm 62:8

                                                      "Trust in him at all times, O people;
                                                          pour out your heart before him;                                                                                                                     God is a refuge for us."
                                                                            Selah