Dracula , facing competition from Currawongs who try and steal his Dutch cheese, stops the traffic by hopping onto a car bonnet to check windscreen and wipers for tasty insects, watched by Magnetic Island residents and a cluster of Curlews, the latter regarding the pheasant looking Coucal as an interloper . At times he and the Currawongs are seen glaring at each other , either side of the plastic container in which the bite-sized cheese pieces are kept by the kind German Queen of the Jungle. A regular visitor to her leafy abode , a Kookaburra, below, has also joined the cheese dogfight .
Seen slithering away at speed from the Queen's pad was the Yellow-Bellied Tree Snake, below, which was pursued by a lumbering blogger trying to keep it in camera focus before it disappeared down a stormwater drain. A nearby resident reported finding a python curled under a wheelie bin . My son spotted a "black looking " snake.
