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25.01.2022 Video 1 jan 30 2018

24.01.2022 And they were Kung fu fighting.

24.01.2022 This is a fairly long video. But you will see some paternalistic behaviour and some maternal rejection. This vid is not for the faint hearted. Listener discretion is advised.

23.01.2022 I ran out of beef and the kookaburras have been going berserk. Divebombing the roof, pecking on the windows and giving me filthy looks. I’ve had to hide from them for most of the day but their counterintelligence capabilities have advanced and they can spot me from a 100 yards when I go the bathroom.

23.01.2022 As members know I’m a member of birds of Oz and I have discovered there are at least 8 people in Australia doing exactly what I’m doing. Turns out my tribe is the least domesticated and I’ve reached out for advice by a guy called Brad. He even has his own YouTube channel. He’s the closest thing we have to a kookaburra whisperer. He’s the guy who posted a photo of a kookaburra literally looking into the viewfinder of a camera to check the focus was right for his self portrait after I had concluded after 8 years that Kookabura’s don’t like being photographed. He hand feeds kookaburras and they perch on his arm. Anyway, I’m going to document my progress. This is day 1 Oceans’s Seven Kookaburra Feeding Aggression Desensitisation Program . Let me know if you can see any progress in the comments.

22.01.2022 Kookaburras have started using my balcony as a vantage sight for hunting lizards and small snakes or whatever they eat when I’m not around. So the outer three, on the balcony are on lookout. 1 our of 3 are starting outward at at any one time , the other 2 are looking at my fridge along with the 2 closest to me. This is the classic rhomboid formation that they adopted to maximise efficiency of feeding. So it is supposed to reduce the risk of conflict because 2 birds are higher in the pecking order and the 3rd will be based on who has the fastest reflexes when they see me open the fridge.

21.01.2022 Check this out. This is a baby Tawny Frogmouth chick , each day he gets rounder and fluffier. He has the world record for cuteness and each day he breaks his own world record. This image was taken by a member of Birds of Oz, Facebook group.

21.01.2022 Monday mayhem with a rare case of indigestion from gluttony and a kookaburra flight crash into table, head butt at short range. No injuries were sustained. This vid. has something for everyone. Note lack of pecking order descends into chaos.

21.01.2022 The pecking order.

21.01.2022 Nicholas, extreme close-up. Nicholas has been ostracised by his own kind at least 12 months. Nobody knows why. But, he is a very polite Kookaburra. Very humble. Very very skittish. I’ve been trying to rehabilitate him by learning Kookaburra language but it’s not working. I’m at a loss on what to do.

20.01.2022 Breached again !

20.01.2022 Kookaburras becoming feral.

19.01.2022 Kookaburras sometimes are extremely polite. I’m quite impressed with their behaviour of late. Last week, I had a code red, and one Kookaburra flew into my home when I wasn’t expecting it. I got him out but I really think lessons have been learned. Here are a few optimists of the Oceans Elevens tribe, that hung around pretending to be dying of starvation even though I fed all of them 1 hour ago. They do like to play their petty little mind games.

17.01.2022 How funny I recently attempted to share my observation that Kookaburras do not like getting photographed to Birds of Oz and one member posted this with the caption I tend to disagree LMAO.

15.01.2022 Some serious risk taking by butcher birds

14.01.2022 See what I’m up against. If anything they’re getting more aggressive. They attack my NBN device if I don’t feed them. No Netflix, what would you do ??

13.01.2022 On fridays, at twilight, I offer a late poly-species avian feeding session from my balcony which I call The festival of co-operation The Festival was originally invented to promote empathy between avian species and those core concepts of empathy were recorded in a memorandum of understanding document, now referred to as The Magna Cicada. Basically, everyone is invited to the weekly festival and it’s very casual. It’s designed to be a Get to know you event to counterac...Continue reading

12.01.2022 Special late unexpected feeding with astonishingly civil behaviour.

10.01.2022 This is just a quick check-in to members since I haven’t posted for a while and I have an exciting insight. This is going to be hard to explain without a whiteboard and 3 magic marker pens but I’ll do my best. As you know already, I have been feeding the Kookaburras daily, usually at dusk, since 2014 and if I am home at dusk and the Kookaburras know I am inside the house they will demand food and they will not stop harassing me until I feed them. Their terrorist like tactics... have been proven and tested on 5 occasions with the most recent experiment in 2015 when I had taken an afternoon nap around 4pm. It was a nice sunny lazy afternoon in Autumn of 2015 when I tried to take a rare 45 minute power nap but when I woke up there was a kookaburra sitting in an old gum tree, eyeballing me from 50 yards except he had a thousand yard stare. He wanted food and he wasn’t going nowhere til he got what he came for. Sorry to digress, but it is important to explain how I make observations and how I come to conclusions. So to cut a long story short, I had to work this weekend (1 in 11 weekends) but this coincided with a weekend I was meant to go to Tamworth (1 in 3 weekends), now normally I would try to swap out of a weekend on-call with another colleague if it conflicted with my Tamworth weekend but since it is the silly season and I am about to have 2 weeks off I decided to work my on-call rostered weekend. You with me, please be patient, all of this is relevant. So it can be deduced that the Kookaburras assumed I went to Tamworth this weekend. The only way they could of been fooled is because 11 and 3 are prime numbers and they were unable to predict that this might happen one day. In fact, the next time this will occur will be on September 5, 2187 and I have no doubt that the Kookaburras descendants will be sitting on my verandah with a cheeky grin. Kookaburras are creatures of habit and they understand patterns and I have confidence that they will learn from their mistake. So on dusk I opened up the verandah door and there was no kookaburra for 5 km. After 90 seconds, a sentinel turned up. A scout, if you like on reconnoissance, If you look closely into this Kookaburras face, you will see for the first time in 17 years, the look of surprise !! See more

09.01.2022 Kookaburras are not very photogenic birds, but that’s not because they are not handsome, it’s because they never look into the camera and smile.

07.01.2022 Kookaburras turned up early again and since yesterday was a disaster with Vladimir getting stuck inside the house I’ve taken a strong stand and explained why they should leave. Here is the highlights from the confrontation.

07.01.2022 Cyclone OMA live gets interrupted by a Kookaburra who is bewildered as WTAF I am doing;

07.01.2022 This is the first time I’ve seen a kookaburra drink water. They’re like the avian version of a camel.

07.01.2022 Not sure what’s going on in this video.

05.01.2022 Unbelievable, I’ve been given an ultimatum we, the people, I mean, we, the Kookaburras are not going to put up with your noncompliance with our feeding schedule, you either comply, and go get us some beef or we bombings will continue. We already know how to disrupt your internet. The President.

05.01.2022 I just had a code red.

05.01.2022 This is the longest thousand yard stare I’ve been subjected to. He never blinked, I took heaps of photos, he never flinched. I’m starting to get concerned about my personal safety.

05.01.2022 Deradicalisation program update. Goals obtained : 1. down to one controlled feed on Friday afternoons. 2. One morsel per bird with incentive to remain seated 3. sheet over door to signal feeding time over appears to be working. 4. No optimistic birds refusing to leave after end of feed time, 5 no rioting for weeks. Future goals , get birds to assume hexagon feeding formation prior to anticlockwise feeding order and each morsel is delivered at feet per bird and no break in order.

03.01.2022 When people say they feel like they are being watched. Me:

03.01.2022 My local kookaburra tribe love The Bourne Identity especially the last instalment. They always turn up and they hang around for ages after I’ve fed them. I think it gives them ideas on espionage and counterintelligence.

02.01.2022 Intriguing communication caught on camera.