Kids out in the street?
Feline intestinal disturbance?
Radio next door?
Nope, it was definitely coming from the chimney. Last time I heard a noise in the chimney it was a disoriented mouse, and the time before that it was swarming bees.
Went outside to have a look. Rushed back inside to get the camera.
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Are they wood ducks, perhaps? Every year, a few of them land at Chez Ocky to check out a hollow tree nearby (good nesting spot). Unfortunately for them, the hollow is already taken by an aged and grumpy possum.
I have watched two ducks peer cautiously into the hole, then back out very quickly, chased by the flailing arm of Mrs Possum.
Sometimes there is a third duck, and I assume he is the Real Estate Agent duck, showing the young couple around. "Here's a lovely old hollow, plenty of room for the kids. There's a tenant there at the moment, but she'll be moving out soon."
Oh, I love that idea, Ocky.
LOLDuck indeed...
[doorbitch is, agonisingly, OTGKMFVT. I'd like to think it's a very rude acronym.]
Looks like Wood Duck (aka Maned Goose) profiles to me too. I can't think of anything else that quacks that's likely to inhabit one's chimney.
There's a certain Melia tree outside the Benham Bldg at Adelaide Uni that hosts a clutch of Wood Ducklings most years. Had the pleasure of watching one season's offspring jump & flutter from their nest several years ago....
The Feral Abacus
Australian Wood Ducks usually like hollow tree branches - but I suppose beggars can't be choosers. Well spotted
I'd be feeling a bit spooked if ceiling duck was peering down my chimney...
the feral abacus
Heh!
They've gone. It was just a stopover.
I think.
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