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).
Hi Joono, do you have a picture of Baloo? Would like to see him. Labradors are beautiful dogs.
We took care of an old Border Collie a few years ago that had been neglected; eventually, we found her a lovely home on a small farm where she lived out the rest of her life in sheer happiness. We called her "Rainbow"
Those turkeys are a pita. They love wrecking gardens.
Puppy looks like an Arnold to me.
Maybe you could call him Steve (after the croc hunter, even though he's not a saltwater croc):^O
Here he is. The first photo was over a year ago. The very poor second photo is more recent of him with Fishbait. I think I took it on zoom and it's over pixelated or something.
He's absolutely gorgeous Joono, love his "smile", what a treasure. There is something about his eyes, so intelligent and so patient with the cat.
I think one day in the future, we are going to have a dog, most likely a Basenji or something a little smaller that a kitten can grow up with, but not while we have our two cats ... Latte would mash a dog, and Garage would bolt ... :^O
Pimpy, that's a good idea "Steve" after the croc man! He's very snowman like though .. hey, there you go, "Snowman", not sure how well that would go down though .... 😛
