Tree’s Company: Tawny Frogmouth’s Affinity for Camouflage


 What had looked like an accidental aggregation of sticks turns out to be a nest for two Tawny Frogmouths in the jacaranda tree just a metre or two outside my upstairs window - make that Frogmouth Vieiwing Platform.  Two of these camouflaged charmers take turns to sit, maybe puff up a bit, deliver lugubrious side-eyes, and sleep.  Watching Frogmouths sit still proves to wonderfully dynamic,  at one point the larger parent bird did a shuffling rearrangement of, I assume, the egg layout.  Are there any more satisfying measures of garden success than having a Tawny Frogmouth nest?   I await the hatchlings, and yes, of course, I will keep Readers posted.

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