Showing posts with label Kookaburras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kookaburras. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2025

A-Z Blogging Challenge 2025 - K is for Knockers and a Kookaburra

 As I travel the world I take many photos that pique my interest, these could be lumped into a "peculiar category" ie. they are peculiar to my interests and may be different from what one usually sees in a collection of travel photos.

For the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge in 2025 my theme is Peculiar Pics. During April I invite you to join me for an online tour of Peculiar Pics from my digital albums. These will be sourced from my travels between April 2024 to March 2025.

I have previously shared images of knockers on this blog here  and am delighted to have found a whole new set of knockers from our most recent year of travel. Please take a look. 
 
Gozo, Malta

A walk around Cadiz, Spain provided an opportunity to snap many knockers

Cadiz, Spain

Cadiz, Spain

Cadiz, Spain

Malaga, Spain

Messines, Belgium

Passau, Germany

Cologne, Germany

Gozo, Malta

Tangier, Morocco

Malaga, Spain

Cassis, France

Amiens, France

Poperinge, Belgium

A kookaburra is a native Australian bird. Here is a picture of one hiding in a tree in our backyard.

Kookaburra - Lake Macquarie, Australia

When we were window shopping in Cassis, France we came across a Kookabarra in a patisserie. Although it was tempting we resisted the urge to try it. 

A French Kookaburra - Cassis, France

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

From where I sit...

Through my window
... I look out a window onto our back garden that contains quite a few Gum (Eucalypt) trees.

This morning I glanced out and saw one of the many  Kookaburras that inhabits our garden sitting on the branch of a tree. The photo I took of this proud bird is not too clear as my window is rather dusty.

What immediately came to mind was the Kookaburra song I learnt as a child :

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Merry merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Eating all the gum drops he can see.
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Save some there for me!
 
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Counting all the monkeys he can see.
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
That's not a monkey, that's me!
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