We got this female Tawney Frogmouth several years ago as a result an accident with a car.
After it had healed we attempted to release it but every time we bought it out onto the verandah , it looked around and flew back to its cage.
Last evening it was making the boo, booo, booo, soud they make and there seemed to be an echo. A bit of searching found another in the Jacaranda tree.
We bought our out and sat him on the table. After a bit he flew over to the rail and later near dark, up into the tree.
The two of them clasped each others mouth and were wrestling back and forth. Ours fell down a couple of times but flew back up. They kept this up untill too dark to see but they flew down towards the shed.
Sorry to see her leave but hope she finds a mate.
In the first photo you can just see the one in the tree to the right of the veranda post in the gap between the pull rope for the curtain.
If she does find a mate she will most likely hang around anyway. My Brother in law and sister in law had a Tawny Frog mouth that was tame enough to land on them. It was the previous owners that had tamed it. It was not until it landed on my sister in law that they realised that they had a feathered friend. You may well be soon tending to a few of them if she has chicks.
Cheers Hall
An ex girlfriend of mine was a vet student and they use to have a wild animal rehab centre at the college where they use to treat a lot of birds of prey. It was pretty awesome when you could release them back into he wild.
What surprised me about them was how light they were but they had tremendous leg strength.
I hope your Tawney sticks around and raises a few families for you.
Well that was a short lived romance
Came out on the verandah yesterday morning and there she was, flew onto my wifes shoulder and couldnt wait to get inside.
Must be the food
She was pretty hungry so must not like bush tucker any more..
Oh well , we tried. May be next time.
Yep just like children some are hard to move on. Next time it leaves it will be back with some washing as well and clean your pantry out before it leaves.
Cheers Hall
We had a young one when we were kids.I think it fell out of a nest.
It used to eat the biggest insects you could imagine in one go.It loved large grasshoppers and crickets.
Eventually it flew away,but did hang around for food for a while before it disappeared completely.
Yours definitely has the homing instinct,probably as said for food
YarnMaster
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You may well be soon tending to a few of them if she has chicks.
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