The Bird Song that drives one nuts

[Neferti]

There used to be a parasitic Cuckoo near me. I haven't heard it for a couple of years now though. I'm not familiar with the Koel.

Aussie bird calls ...

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/birds/f ... Bird-Songs

I had never heard of the name myself.

It took me a lot of Googling to locate what it was as I could only hear him somewhere nearby, going on and on and on and on.

I've heard it too, but it is a fair way off from where I am, still an annoying, monotonous sound, no wonder people are yelling at it.

I wondered if you had heard them Nef as I thought you lived somewhere near my vicinity!

Actually my Burmese cat went mental around my PC when I put the Youtube of it on she was trying to find the bird!

I saw one around but thought it was a "blackbird". I used to get lots of birds in my garden, even saw a Willy Wagtail on my lawn once. Rosellas, Honey-eaters, Maggies, King Parrots, Finches, Currawongs. Never seen a common Indian Miner and all the Sparrows disappeared years ago. I have the "Birds of Australia" by Graham Pizzey and I used to write down the birds I saw in my garden.

[Black Orchid]

I haven't seen a Sparrow, Willy Wagtail or Blue Wren since I was a kid.

[Neferti]

I haven't seen a Sparrow, Willy Wagtail or Blue Wren since I was a kid.

Where have all the sparrows gone? (sounds like a song).

When I lived in St Ives we had Kookaburras in the gum trees and I used to feed them.

Blue Wrens are my favourite bird. Unfortunately, my daughter locked on to this and I have "ornaments" of them everywhere.

Blue Wren.jpeg