Family

You never heard anything like it. The noise was unbelievable. Kookaburras to the left of me; kookaburras to the right of me.

What I think happened was that my resident kookies had a face-off with another couple that were trying to move into the territory.

Inevitably, my kookie family won the battle, and peace reigned - more or less.

Let me introduce you.

On the left we have Lisa-Marie, next we have proud mum Priscilla. The greedy one is Costello, and Dad (Elvis) is far right.

Elvis is by far the tamest of the lot, but he's teaching Costello the same tricks. Priscilla and Lisa-Marie are a lot more wary. But they are all on the lawn, only a couple of metres from my feet.

They sit on the edge of the birdbath, calling me with intensifying noise until I respond and bring them food.

Clever bunch.