The pudding goes to the beach

[OldGit]

Sin With Sebastian? 

Hell's Bells, I've got to draw a line somewhere.

[Amicale]

Now you've got me singing the Kookaburra song.

Aagh, no, anything but the Kookaburra song.  I'll listen to Rolf Harris, Cliff Richard, even a Welsh choir, but not that.

These are excellent pictures, Pudding.

I prefer the parody.

Kookaburra sits on electric wire, hopping up and down 'cause his bum's on fire!
Ouch, kookaburra, ouch, kookaburra, hot your tail must be!

[The Magic Pudding]

[Amicale]

Wow, awesome shots! Cute 'sand whale', amazing animal, and I LOVE the birds!

[Tank]

And this is Australian winter!

[Asmodean]

And this is Australian winter!

Kinda' makes you want to dislike Pudding, doesn't it? 

[OldGit]

Nice photos, Pudding!  But I'm afraid the whale-like animal in the middle isn't real, only a model made out of sand.  Sorry to spoil it.

[Tank]

And this is Australian winter!

Kinda' makes you want to dislike Pudding, doesn't it? 

I've always loved pudding 

[The Magic Pudding]

This brush turkey was making one of those big mound nests on the ground, this is only a hundred metres from where the 4ft monitor lizard was and there are larger ones.  I don't know how brush turkeys discourage lizards.  Yes I know I mix metric and imperial measurements.





I think that blurry thing is a white bellied sea eagle, they're supposed to look like this

[The Magic Pudding]

[Sweetdeath]

And this is Australian winter!

Kinda' makes you want to dislike Pudding, doesn't it? 

Just shake my fist at him. 

[Recusant]

Great photos, Magic Pudding! Of the last set, the two on the bottom are my favorites; very painterly.

[OldGit]

Magic photos, Pudding!

[The Magic Pudding]

Great photos, Magic Pudding! Of the last set, the two on the bottom are my favorites; very painterly.

Thanks.

The turkey's mound has gotten quite large.

Brushturkeys are communal birds, and have communal nests. A typical group consists of a dominant male, one or more younger males and several females. They build large nests on the ground made of leaves, other combustible material and earth, 1 to 1.5 metres high and up to 4 metres across. The eggs are hatched by the heat of the composting mound which is tended only by the males who regulate the temperature by adding or removing material in an effort to maintain the temperature of the mound in the 33–35°C incubation temperature range.[1] The Australian Brushturkey checks the temperature by sticking its beak into the mound. As with some reptiles, incubation temperature affects the sex ratio of chicks, which is equal at 34°C but results in more males when cooler and more females when warmer (p=0.035). It is unclear whether the parents use this to manipulate the sex of their offspring by, for instance, selecting the nesting site accordingly. Warmer incubation also results in heavier, fitter chicks (p<<0.0001), but how this is linked to gender is also unknown.[2]

The same nesting site is frequently used year after year, the old ones being added to each breeding season. The average clutch of eggs is between 16 and 24 large white eggs, which are laid September to March. Sometimes up to 50 eggs laid by several females may be found in a single mound. The eggs are placed in a circle roughly 60–80 cm down, 20–30 cm apart, always with the large end up. The newly hatched young dig themselves out of the mound and then have to look after themselves.

Brush-turkey eggs are a favourite food of goannas, snakes, dingoes and dogs and once were a staple of Aboriginal Australians. Often goannas exhibit wounds on their tails of having been pecked by Brush-turkeys who ferociously chase them away from their nests.

Some of that isn't surprising, the males cooperating and the number of eggs is.  Doesn't sound like there'll be chicks being led around by a parent.  It does seem a bit early to be starting and I noticed another mound being built elsewhere.

[The Magic Pudding]

Koalas, the slack buggers.  Look at these guys at the Koala Hospital, they don't look sick to me.  Slackers, malingerers, that's what they are.





A sculpture, I think I know how this idea would have arose.  Sitting with your pencil trying to think of something, can't so poke your pencil into your rubber, ha ha! that'll do.




The water was a pleasing colour, I didn't mess with it.