Look Wut I Got! (Scroller and Photo)
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on 19-01-2013 07:58 PM
This is Screech.
For the last couple of months we've had a very diligent Tawny Frogmouth pair sitting on their nest close to the house. We've watched with anticipation and were finally rewarded by seeing a little bundle of fluff popping his head out of the nest.
Then last weekend - DRAMA - I walked outside to see a massive monitor making his way towards the Tawny tree. Screamed at hubby to come and help, we tried to avert disaster, but the monitor was way too fast for us and scaled the tree.
Mumma Tawny was very panicked, as the monitor came closer to the nest she flew off into a nearby tree. She gave me a look of absolute desperation HELP ME! (yes, she did!) but the nest/monitor were way too high for us to do anything. Hubby tried to throw things at the monitor, but I stopped him as the monitor's life is no less precious than the chicks - I didn't want to see the monitor get toppled out of the tree and hurt or killed. Plus hubby damn near hit my car with a rock. ;\
I put some eggs around the base of the tree so the monitor could see them, in a vain attempt to lure him away from the chick. We had to go out briefly, so wished the Tawnys good luck. Alas, when we came back, the nest was empty :_|
Went about our afternoon chores when suddenly I spotted baby Tawny! Sitting on the ground next to the tractor. We dropped everything, made him a makeshift nest and put it up in the tree, then caught him and put him in the nest. We saw Mumma and Pappa Tawny watching nearby.
Cut down a long story, Bubba kept jumping out of his nest over the next three days and Mumma and Pappa abandoned him, so the decision was made to bring him inside to keep him safe from both the monitors and our dogs. (our four young ones would kill him).
He will be released as soon as he can fly properly and learn to catch his own bugs (I am catching them for him at the moment). He's all puffed up and hating me in the photo, that's a good thing, we don't want him imprinting on us. He's feeding really well though (I hate you, I hate you, yum, yum, more please, I still hate you).
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on 11-03-2013 10:09 PM
He's gone 😞 😄 :_| (<<<< me trying to smile through the tears.)
Left the door open again tonight at 6:30pm, checked again at 7:30pm and he had - literally - flown the coop.
Worst part is that I have NO IDEA where he's gone, 'cos I wasn't there to watch.
Good luck Screechy boy, I's gonna miss you.
Will post pics in a day or two, it's been a hell of a week (floods, driveway impassable, calf down with paralysis tick, now looks like camels may have been bitten as well), and I'm like the walking dead at the moment.
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on 11-03-2013 10:09 PM
Joono, who/what is your lodger?
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on 11-03-2013 10:11 PM
:_|:_|:_| .... Screechy, come back and visit when you can .... :-x

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on 11-03-2013 10:12 PM
Oh no, Monsters, ticks are horrible things, hope it can all be brought under control soon xx

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on 11-03-2013 10:42 PM
aaaww monsters, you never know, he might be back in the morning. Make sure that cage door is left open tonight,just in case
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on 11-03-2013 11:01 PM
I concur with Debra, yes, I think he'll be around for a long time even in the trees nearby. You never know Monsters, he may bring his wife and family around later and you'll know it's them.
You have done such a wonderful thing xx

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on 11-03-2013 11:32 PM
((monsters)) :-x Life always gets better.
Well done Screechy boy.
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on 11-03-2013 11:42 PM
Well done Screechy 🙂 😐
Monsters, I hope he at least stays in the vicinity and you get to see new little babies one day.
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on 12-03-2013 12:27 AM
Just saw him! Just about to go to bed and thought - "I'll just have one last look, just in case". Never thought I'd spot him, as our property has nearly a squillion trees, but he was perched on top of one of the chook houses, only about 100m from his aviary. Funny thing was, I must have walked straight past him on the way down to his aviary to check. Rude boy never said "Here I am!".
When I spotted him and said hello, he talked to me, but told me off and flapped his wings when I got too close - "No, mummy, I'm having fun, go away".
I am just so thrilled to have been able to say a proper goodbye. As I walked back inside, I watched him fly up onto the roof of our peacock enclosure, so even if he only stays there the night, at least I know he will be pretty safe. In nocturnal terms the night is still young, so hopefully he will find a good perch up in one of the tall trees.
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on 12-03-2013 07:36 AM
:-x There you go!
I bet he's still not far away this morning

