Archive for November 14th, 2007

Somewhere outside my window is a tawny frogmouth, or mopoke, poking his mo’ for all he’s worth every few seconds.

This is not one of my photos.
frogmouth.jpg

Late Edit:”Mopoke” can be a frogmouth, and they are often found round here. Their call, however, is a sort of “Moop-Moop-Moop-Moop”. My visitor was the OTHER sort of Mopoke; the Southern Boobook Owl.

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see http://www.abc.net.au/goulburnmurray/stories/s1640762.htm for more.

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