owl!

[leelastarsky]

Last night (c10pm), something 'exciting' was happening around at the supermarket next door to us. Still have no idea what it was, but there were at least 5 firetrucks, 3 police cars and 1 police wagon/van. And those were the ones we could see from the pipe track, which runs between us and the shopping centre. There could have been more. Lots of flashing lights and siren after siren. Anyway, curious as to what was going down, 11yo daughter, 14yo son and I started to walk around to see what was happening and, as we walked through the reserve at the top of our court, I noticed a shape on a low branch beside us... A
tawny frogmouth!


So 14yo son ran back for the camera and came back with Dad, 9yo son and 16yo son as well. The owl didn't seem bothered by us at all, and would launch off the branch to try and catch moths (I presume - he was definitely hunting something airborn) and come back to the same tree, if not the same branch.


I've never seen one so lively! (probably because I've only ever seen them 'pretending to be a branch' in the daytime at the zoo!) So that was VERY exciting.





Isn't he cool?! :~D

Comments

[aliciajd]

We've got several of these at our local zoo, but as they are nocternal, I've never really had a good look at them. Thanks for this post.

A few months back someone from Australia posted a picture of a huge spider on the outside of their bedroom window. I love Live Journal, the world just keeps getting smaller!