Hi Akos,
Congrats - I'd like to get a GOOD look at one myself. To that end, it would
be helpful to know where Mitchell Park is....
Cheers,
John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 06/04/2010, at 2:47 PM, Ákos Lumnitzer wrote:
> Hi Birders
>
> I was finally fortunate enough to observe my first Australian Owlet
> Nightjar at Mitchell Park on Thursday evening. I have been visiting here
> for months (around once every week) and have heard them on my last dozen
> outings but could never find the specimens. Last visit prior on the 22nd
> of March I had heard at least five of them once I used call playback. They
> were very quick to respond. Anyway, here are a couple of images of an
> adult I came across as I was searching for an Eastern Banjo Frog that I
> photographed in the same patch two weeks earlier and the week before that.
> The bird was sitting no more than 30cm from the ground, probably hunting
> insects. See pictures below if you wish.
>
> http://amatteroflight.com/gallery2/d/3417-1/Australian-Owlet-Nightjar_5275.jpg
>
> http://amatteroflight.com/gallery2/d/3416-2/Australian-Owlet-Nightjar_5267.jpg
>
>
> And the very next day I observed one in Castlereagh Nature Reserve in
> exactly in the same hollow where I photographed a Southern Boobook exactly
> one year earlier on Good Friday 2009.
>
> http://amatteroflight.com/gallery2/d/3429-2/Australian-Owlet-Nightjar_5472.jpg
>
>
>
> I suppose this is the best forum to report this very common bird, as other
> places would turn their noses up! LOL!!! Needless to say that Azure
> Kingfishers and Crested Shrike-tits at Longneck Lagoon are really rare
> sightings. :)
>
>
>
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