Tawny Frogmouth for my GBS

["Philip Veerman" <>]

My neighbour (the same whose garden hosted the White-fronted Honeyeater in 2007) phoned me to say that a Tawny Frogmouth had been roosting in his back yard over the past week. I can only guess likely to be the same one. I went to have a look at it. He says it is very tame. It was roosting adjacent to the house in a leafless deciduous tree. I don't recall having seen them roost in a tree like that before.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: Philip Veerman [ Sent: Friday, 25 May 2012 9:39 PM      To:
Subject: Tawny Frogmouth for my GBS

I just drove into my yard and whilst I would normally go in backwards this time forwards and lucky to flush a Tawny Frogmouth sitting on the side fence. It then flew and then perched on the top of my Hills Hoist, very easy to see. I only recall one prior sighting of one of them at my GBS site, though that was years ago and a daytime roosting. Not important but a nice thing on a dull day.

 

Philip Veerman

24 Castley Circuit

Kambah  ACT  2902

 

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