Australian cliche: Kookaburra tries to nick my roo from the barbie
In an episode that would be cut from a Baz Luhrmann epic as “too cliched”, last night a kookaburra tried to steal some roasting kangaroo fillets as I cooked them on our barbecue. Let me say that in a more cliched manner: a kookaburra tried to nick some roo from my barbie. I expect this to be followed by a dingo taking our baby and my being attacked at Bondi Beach by a shark and crocodile, which I fend off with a boomerang.
The footage below (also at http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ll8aPonbA7E) sets the scene: this is a few days before. On Christmas morning, as you do, we put out food for the resident kookaburras. Kat, Dee, and Kira all star; I am the cameraman.
They’ll be eating out of your hand before you know it.
January 8th, 2009 at 10:51 amTrue enough Steve, Dee got him to take food out of her hand the next morning!
January 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pm