Bad hair day?

The kookaburra that occasionally visits my deck came today with his mate, who I haven't seen before. She was a bit shyer than him and didn't let me get so close. Here is the pair of them, in my blip folio. I took about 30 photos of them and he still hung around for a bit longer after that. I dug a grub up out of the veggie garden, which he ate with relish. (I wasn't about to go and get him a live skink though, or frog!)

A thundery sort of a day, with showers and lots of little storm cells passing through. I really can't understand why a whole state has to have a day off work and school for a horse race.

Even bigger wind ruffled kookaburra