Tawny Frogmouths on Bruce/O'Connor Ridge

["martin butterfield" <>]

I received this message from Robin immediately after rediscovering the 2 young birds in our garden.  I had not seen a single frogmouth for 3 weeks: the young birds fledged and the whole family vanished.   I looked reasonably hard for them with no success (although there are many good hiding places in some cypresses).  

This afternoon an flock of mixed thornbills was kicking up a ruckus and on examining them I found two young frogmouths sitting on the fence in full view.  They seemed rather tolerant of an amateur photographer creepng around with about 4m of them, although a watchful eye or four was directed at me.

Martin

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Robin Hide <> wrote:

There were 4 Tawny Frogmouths (I assume 2 adults-2 well grown young) roosting in a very exposed position in the Bruce/O'Connor Ridge reserve this morning. The tree (almost leafless) is immediately in front of you at the path entrance from Dryandra St just after Kunzea St. 
Robin Hide