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Good memories there.
Our two girls are orphans.
The mother of Sesame became trapped in a Cocos palm and died and her baby was rescued. The other one, named Sunflower, was found by an Energex crew hanging alone on a power line, with no sign of the mother. The crew called the bat rescue people. The names were chosen by their sponsors, not us, BTW.
They are now growing rapidly on a special milk formula and will be returned to the wild in February, once they can fly.
They are intelligent and their eyesight, hearing and smelling senses are far superior to humans.
Contrary to popular belief they are fastidiously clean and spend much of their time grooming themselves.
They also really like being scratched behind the ears.
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Ses can use her thumb to hold her bottle, which is clever.
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They can go downhill quick if they are weak when they come in,and they often dont clean themselves.We used to bath them to keep them clean,dry them off, and I think from memory add glucose to the milk mix, which got them going.
Very rare did we lose a Fruit bat, and we had quite a few, over the years, most had parents electrocuted on power lines.

Thanks. Yes Sunny is older, but smaller, probably after hanging on a power line unfed for several days, but is now doing well on formula, with fruit to be added soon.

This will be the last frogmouth photos for this year as I think they flew away a day or two ago. The photo was taken about four or five days ago.

I must confess that I didn't take this shot, but I was there when a friend of a friend took it. It is a good illustration of the fact that you need to be in the right spot at the right time. I have rarely seen them with their eyes open, but he caught the parent and the two chicks all with their eyes open.

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So the youngest son found a baby Frogmouth on the ground next to a gate post yesterday, sound asleep, it cant fly.
Very luckily his dogs didn't find it. He picked it up and put it in a box for the day.
Last night, just on dusk, he put it on a branch, and this morning its in the same spot, with a parent next to it.:thumbsup:

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There had been one old egg in the nest now there are three - a new lay or maybe they are old eggs that had been buried in the shavings on the bottom of the nest.

I took this pic on Monday afternoon.
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I took this pic this morning - they have flown the coop but Mum was in the nest sitting on these eggs. Three of the eggs were already in there left over from the first hatchings so I think 3 new eggs.
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I am surprised there are new eggs as I thought Roselllas continued to look after their young for a couple of months after they had fledged. Irrespective I hope these eggs also lead to 2 or 3 new chicks.

Oh for some reason Mum has completely lost all of her tail feathers but she can still fly OK.

Just to follow up on my contribution to this thread and my Crimson Rosellas. By the end of November the three chicks had flown the coup. They are looked after by Dad who feeds them and shows them how to find food, though they normally end up at my neighbours place who feeds them. Mum is back in the nest.

Here is Dad at my feed lot showing one of the chicks how to get free seed. Dad is on the seed and the chick is the green one. The other two chicks are in the tree nearby.
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Mum had laid new eggs and on 23 Dec this little fellow had arrived
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When I got back from Christmas on 29 Dec I had 3 - two large and one very small (bottom left) - the small one died a day or two later
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On 12 Jan the two remaining ones were going well
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Four days later on 16 Jan one is dead and the other missing - something is up. Mum and Dad are still in the tree but nothing happening.

Today I went to start cleaning out the nest and this greeted me
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The culprit - I dont think he deliberately killed the chicks but sat on them as the chick I found was flattened - and I later found the other missing chick buried in the sawdust.

Possum was not happy to see me and even more unhappy when I shoved the hose up his arse and he made a swan dive from the nest 15' to the ground with no effort at all. (why does AULRO turn pics on their side[bawl])
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I positioned the box just on 1m down from the eves and it is 4m above ground. All I can think is that the possum drops from the roof onto the box and then does a dive from the box to the ground - not sure how else he can manage it - and given where it is how did he even find it?

This little fellow has been giving me grief for the past few weeks - my garage is relatively open and he has been camping inside my roller doors - not even the doors going up and down with him inside seems to worry him. Anyway got him out of the garage so I guess that is why he has gone looking for somewhere else.

My neighbour thinks I should build his own little box somewhere, and he is probably right, but I dont want to admit defeat and let on that a nasty big arse possum beat me.

I now need to think about where to move the nesting box so a possum cannot get at it.

Garry

Hmm,had the same problem here with possums.Brush tailed possums can be kept out.

I cant find the article just now, but I read that a round hole of 65mm in the box is what you need.
A possum will squeeze through anything that its head can fit through.That is the determining part of the body.

A couple of my boxes had 65mm holes, the possums then decided to chew the wood around the hole so they could get in.I ended using sheet metal around the hole to keep them out.
Pale headed rosellas bread in both boxes.

There are also ring tailed possums around here but they didnt get in the boxes.

Thanks Paul - I am just curious how he managed to find the box in the first place as you can see stuck on the side of the house and how he got to it and then manages to leave. He cannot climb the side of the house - so must have taken a leap of faith and dropped down from the roof. Likeswise a 4m drop to ground is pretty adventurous even for a possum but when he did it for me he was pretty ****ed off and did not like the hose on full blast.

Cheers

Garry