The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

This is a toucan

But you knew that from the very educational cereal commercials.

They eat fruit, but usually not in loop form.

But they’re also murderous thugs

That eat eggs and chicks from nests.

Who would have suspected something so funny looking

Could be so evil

Bye toucan.

This is a yellow billed cardinal.

Whoever named them must have grown up with a really small box of crayons, because their bills are orange.

They look funny with loose feathers.

The juveniles are brown.

And they look even funnier when their red feathers start to come in.

Some just have red stubble.

Some have bloody noses.

Some have red eyeliner.

And some are mostly red with brown spots.

They are all funny looking.

Especially when standing off balance.

They hung out around our hotel.

Therefore Kerri took too many pictures of them.

If she keeps going she’s going to have to search for cardinal facts.

So she’s going to stop here.

Jabiru stork babies are not very cute.

They’re actually pretty ugly.

But don’t tell the mom that.

She’s almost as tall as us and has a big beak.

In the morning they brought sticks up to fix the nest.

The adults gather sticks on the ground.

And carry big beaks full up to the nest.

And the babies helped arrange them in the nest.

So the babies are pretty clever even if they aren’t pretty.

There are four babies in the nest.

Which makes for a pretty big pile of bird.

The nest is very high up in the air.

But they come back to the same nest every year, so they’ve built a tower up so you can see inside.

Both the tower and the tree are now held up by wires.

The babies are quite big.

And will be able to fly soon.