FEATHERED FREAKS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 10

FEATHERED FREAKS

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I saw in the "Evening Post" yesterday where a writer objected because a picture show inirdduced an Australian Gazette with a couple of kookaburras laughing fit to kill themselves. He called the kookaburras feathered freaks. Now, Sir, what does he want to pick on these good old Aussie birds for? He-ought to be out in the backbloeks of Queensland of an evening" after a hard day's work, aud wheii a man is tired out and perhaps feeling a bit fed up with things. Then he'd appreciate these "feathered freaks" who, with their laughing, seem to tell a man to buck up, and not get bluey. Then in the morning when the sun is just peeping over the hills the "kooks" will all gather round and off they'll start laughing just,for the sheer joy of being alive. Now, Mr. Editor, isn't it grand to have a cheery prelude like that in the early morning to start a man off happy and contented for his day's work. - Then you ought to see j the kookaburras sitting all quiet in the trees or on the fence around a haystack. All of a sudden you'll see one fly, plonk into the haystack and- out he'll come with a mouse squealing in his beak. Maybe it will be, a snake; Of course, he won't be squealing, but he'll be wriggling some. Noisy feathered freaks! I wish I could | hear their noise now for a bit.—l am, etc., QUIET AUSSIE. '