Urban koels behaving even more badly

There is no shortage of koels in Coogee, Sydney, but because they usually forage in the tree canopy and don't tend to associate with humans they are usually heard rather than seen.  In the late afternoon of Tuesday 8th January, when it was 42C in Sydney, I was surprised to see a fine adult male koel land in the blueberry ash (a very small tree) outside our kitchen window.  The blueberry ash berries aren't ripe yet.  Before long he'd made his way down to the patio, where he helped himself liberally to the nice ripe cherry tomatoes that I had been carefully nurturing and intended to have for dinner (mine).  A cherry tomato in the beak set off his bright red eyes very nicely.  Oh well, it was a really hot day and he looked a bit fraught.  He probably wouldn't be back.  But the next day at about the same time a big female arrived to steal her tea.  It was his partner, and now they both visit at all hours.  I'm off to the fruit market to buy a punnet of cherry tomatoes..