Showing posts with label fledging birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fledging birds. Show all posts

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Fledging Frogmouths

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.

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.
 
And mum watches on in-obtrusively