As this massive bird matures, his host crow parents are coming down to our garden a little bit more often, frantically looking for food for their adopted offspring.  To my utter frustration, the channel-billed cuckoo was in my garden twice today screeching for food but as soon as I crept outside with my camera, the crows immediately sensed my presence.

This of course then sends the cuckoo off after them and the photo I long for is gone, deep sigh.  I have included a photo of one of the crows perched at the top of our lillypilly tree who was scanning for food and a distant shot of the juvenile cuckoo which is the only photo I have actually managed to take so far.

One of the Torresian crows who has become a surrogate parent of the Channel-billed cuckoo

Here he is looking up at one of the crows, a couple of branches higher up. When I took this photo, he was constantly flapping his wings and screeching.  This must be annoying every single neighbour in the street as this odd family of birds flit about from three different high trees, distantly surrounding our yard!