Black-necked Stork turns black-hearted

Ooh, look! Kindly young Black-necked Stork sees eel struggling in mud and carefully picks it out for revival on bank.

Checks vitals by vigorous palpitation with bill all along eel: thus comes the jab in Jabiru.

Caring love has no bounds, bird decides eel needs to be washed down. Sacrifices smoothness of gullet to help eel feel better: would better be called Black-throated Stork.

Oh dear! It's forgotten to cough eel up. Maybe better called Black-hearted Stork!

Town Common Friday 8/12/23.

  

Blue-winged Kookaburra worth two shakes

Blue-winged Kookaburra appears caught by surprise but, as they say, appearances can be deceptive. So can image processing. Thus, two lighting treatments.

Bird's spikiness comes from after vigorous shakes following bathing splash into shadowy edge of lagoon in Town Common Conservation Park, Townsville.