I'm wondering if the bird has just mistaken the plastic tree guard for a hollow
stump. Do they normally roost in places like that - i.e. a stump about a foot
high with a vertical hollow?
I wonder what it thought about the amount of light that was getting in through
the sides.
Peter Shute
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> Deb Colbourne
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Unusual use for a tree guard!
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> We have heard plenty of Owlet-nightjars on our place north of
> Hobart but never seen one. We were checking trees we had
> planted, this afternoon on the north side of the hill and on
> checking one, found this roosting safely inside! The links to
> the pictures are for Flickr:
> m("N03/10553051875/in/photostream/","//www.flickr.com/photos/34886851");">http:
> m("N03/10553066375/in/photostream/","//www.flickr.com/photos/34886851");">http:
> m("N03/10553055046/in/photostream/","//www.flickr.com/photos/34886851");">http:
>
> We were unaware that they would roost on the ground, more
> often tree stumps or hollows. We imagine this would be fairly unusual?
>
> Debbie and Julian
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