City Kookaburra

On our walk to work we normally pass through a small reserve in Parkville called Ievers Reserve. For the last couple of weeks a Kookaburra has taken up residence in the reserve. We took this photo of the Kooka the other day just before it was mobbed by a group of Pied Currawongs. What impressed me most about the Kookaburra was that in between swooping attacks from the Currawongs it was able to spy a juicy worm then dive down and extract it from the leaf litter.

There have recently been some other reports of Kookaburras seen around Melbourne, in the Botanic Gardens and also on the corner of Spring and Collins Streets. We also see them occasionally in Royal Park West. Other birds we have seen In Ievers Reserve include a Collared Sparrowhawk and Red-rumped Parrots.

City Kookaburra