Gate-crashing Kookaburras provided unique entertainment at a pleasant festive season dinner . The cheeky birds , four in number , flew through the house , inspected Christmas trees and presents , dashed away at times to feed a demanding, raucous baby built like Billy Bunter . In an audacious act , one grabbed a piece of tasty chicken from the plate of the hostess and gave it the MKR snake tenderiser treatment of bashing it up against the metal railing .
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Checking the Xmas tree for squirrels and serpents .
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Intrigued by the wrapped object (below) on the kitchen table , an inquisitive Kookaburra flew down to inspect the package and discovered it contained a worn book , from the Little Darwin overflowing pile , a reprint of an early volume of 101 things for boys to make , including imitation volcanoes, which had once been in the King Island , Tasmania, school library . The Kookaburra was firmly told to get outside , where, unlike the Griswold residence in National Lampoon's classic Christmas Vacation movie , there is a nice swimming pool , in which the birds swim .
