Fledging Frogmouths
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| A Tawny Frogmouth fledgling basks in the sun |
The first Tawny Frogmouths fledged at the weekend, with one chick leaving the nest a day before its siblings, which left the next day. So, a brood of three from the earliest nesting attempt of the year, by the same pair which laid earliest last year and reared three chicks then too.
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| Meanwhile its dad continues to brood two chicks in the nest on the next branch |
The female was sitting low in a branch and was most un-noticeable. Then once they had all fledged the whole family moved into an adjacent tree. They will continue to move around their home range from now on, roosting in a different spot most days.
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| And mum watches on in-obtrusively |
Stuart
ReplyDeleteI have often seen the male on the nest react the way you describe when the Pied Currawongs, which nest in the same tree most years, get too close.
I shall do an analysis of the post brooding mobility over the 7 years of records when this season's event is over. My top of the head summary for this family is that they have a couple of favourite roosts for the first month but get harder to find in the second month after leaving the nest and in the third month I have never found the chicks and rarely the adults.
regards
Martin Butterfield