Wildlife: Birdsters! May is here and we want to see your 'firsts'! :-), 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
The Tawny Frogmouth is a member of the Nightjar order and is something like the American Poor-Will. It is nocturnal like all its cousins and it spends the day sitting on a branch, pretending to be another dead stump. Here is another Tawny Frogmouth that I photographed back in 1982. This one was hit by a car the night before and I collected it. It did not seem to be badly hurt and I released it the following morning. I placed it in a tree and it immediately adopted its cryptic pose for this photo. Wanting to be sure it was OK before leaving it, I gave it a nudge after the photo-shoot and it flew off strongly.
Edited to add:We do occasionally get a tawny frogmouth in our garden at night. We hear this low deep slow call "Ooom..............Ooom.............Ooom......" and go out and scan the trees with a torch and usually find the frogmouth nearby.

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