Sunless Sunday

The week end has been Abysmal - the rain so heavy that we found it impossible to pack up our camper trailer and the thought of putting up a tent in this weather has made us re-think our travel plans. Now we shall leave a couple of  days later - and even the weather in the interior will be better.
So this morning we were able to have our customary bacon and eggs breakfast (our once a week special breakfast!) accompanied by some of our home grown mini tomatoes stewed with a sprinkling of veggie stock powder.
When washing up our friend Twisty Beak came to the window and tapped on the window. Unable to resist him Colin went out with a small dish of diluted raw sugar. Rather than put it down on the table as we normally do, Colin held it and Twisty hopped onto his hand.
Always ready with one camera or other I dropped the tea towel and took a shot of the happy couple!

I wont add any shooting details for this picture because it was taken with the point and shoot, Samsung. This is purely automatic so the shutter and aperture are not really applicable to SLR use. You can see that the sky is pure white - the famous blue skies of the Gold Coast have left us for a while.
I have isolated part of the photo to show the strange beak that this little bird has had to cope with.

It looks as if a second beak has grown inside the loose first lower bill. This will be why Twisty has been able to eat - and survive. If you look back at the top photo (this second shot is a cropped selection of the first) you may see Twisty Beak's mate in the little tree behind Colin.
Referring back to the story and pictures of the kookaburra and the baby. I can understand the concern over the little one's hand being so close to the bird - it has such a nasty looking beak. To be honest I don't think I would have put the child quite that close! However, the kookaburra had been offered bits of biscuit earlier and we had see how placid it was - no snapping of the beak or lunging out at the proffered tit bit. Steven was confident that the bird would not snap but would have been more likely to take flight.
AJ