it's a baby pied butcherbird, Richard.

@walklightly Don't see them down here and rarely when up in NSW.

@FrayedBear, my caravan life near the creek - the only time a family of them deigned to make friends with me, bribed with peanuts.

@walklightly bjelke-petersen butcher birds! The usual way is with bits of meat or offal.

@FrayedBear, no have as a vegetarian. i reckon anything high in proteins is welcome.

@FrayedBear, why bjelke-petersen? they never discussed australian politics with me.

@walklightly peanut farmer. Butcher birds I understand like to hang their meat on thorns and return to it to eat and butcher it up with their sharp beaks.

@FrayedBear, yes, they do that. they use branch forks in trees to fix their "bacon" & tear bits off it. i watched them doing it with large locusts & flying stick insects up in the campher laurel trees.

@walklightly You probably have those big 12-18 inch long stick insects up there. Very rarely see any down here and don't know if we get butcher birds. I would have thought that biltong is a better word than bacon ... though there are lots of "flying pigs" sighted after most of our governments announcements! ?

@FrayedBear, this kind of size "sticky":

@walklightly About the size of one I found climbing up the house side in NSW Central Coast. Even at that size I would say "thin feed".
Is that your hand?

@FrayedBear, yes, my hand, & a roughly 10 inch "thin feed"