Something interesting happened at my home recently. In a hillside suburb, I am lucky to be1by a lot of trees, and even luckier that those trees are home to a2of birds.
One of those birds is called the laughing kookaburra, a big kingfisher, which certainly does like to3snakes and lizards in its strong and powerful beak (喙).
The kookaburra's head and chest are white4its wings and back are brown. What I love most is that the kookaburras laugh at sunset. My bird book5their call as a "loud chuckling laugh." Often they laugh in6with each other so that their laugh7around the trees a bit like the "wave". How wonderful it would be.
I was inside my home when there was a loud8against a window one day. I9out the door and around the veranda (走廊) to see what had happened. A kookaburra was10on the wooden floorboards of the veranda, looking extremely scared. As I11back a little distance, wondering what to do, the12kookaburra shook its head, raised its beak in the air, opened its mouth, and13into a loud, hearty laugh. I thought what a14thing it would be to learn how to15your head up and laugh after such a frightening surprise.
