Hi All,
A beautiful afternoon in Hobart this afternoon, made all the more
pleasant by a short walk through a local (almost) suburban conservation
reserve to see and photograph a Masked Owl. A couple of local birders
found it a few days ago, and alerted others. One kindly added it to
his blog (tassiebirds.blogspot.com), and so a number of us were 'onto
it'. The bird was roosting in some fairly small, though reasonably
dense trees along the creek. There were other roost sites nearby which
it obviously uses frequently, by the 'whitewash' on the rocks and
ground, but today's tree was only maybe 5m from a busy walking track,
and the bird was probably only 5-6m up in the tree. Magnificent
specimen, which people can see for themselves by visiting the
previously mentioned blog.
I do hope it is still roosting nearby during January for our "Great
Tassie Twitch"
John Tongue
Hobart
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