Cornflake wrote:
That's really cute, b9. They know exactly who you are!
Did you hand-rear them from chicks or did you just gain their confidence?
i gained their confidence. they were wild animals that had never interacted with a human, and they trusted me implicitly. i was very sad that i had to abandon them when the council took my house away.
there was a sports field next door to my house, and i tried to feed them from there for the first few months when i no longer lived at my house. my house was very private, and no one ever saw me interacting with the kookaburras. here is a video of the sports field next door (it was made for another person who i was talking to about teenage girls who were harassing me at the time) and it shows how private my place was.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJqsX5xQLuk[/youtube]
anyway, since the kookaburras are diurnal, i had to interact with them before the sun went down, and since there were occasional people on the oval, i got into trouble. people thought i was a nut because i arrived with strips of meat in a bag, and i spoke to the kookaburras in my silly voice (the voice they liked).
i got challenged by people who were playing with their kids or walking their dogs, and they became angry with me and they did not want me to visit the sports field.
one day, someone rang the police and said that there was a strange man acting in a strange way, and that they feared i may be a danger to them or their children, and the police told me it is illegal to feed kookaburras, and i was ordered to stop feeding them, and i was also ordered to not return to the oval if i had no legitimate reason for being there.
unfortunately for both me and the kookaburras, i had to abandon them. i hated humanity for that.
i am sure they survived and i also survived, but my life was not as rich after that.
05 Feb 2012, 4:00 am
