a visit from a tawny frogmouth

[piggsy]

Perhaps not the greatest photos ever taken but this was pretty neat - out photographing bugs in the back yard at night during a break in the rain and got a visitor

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60mm macro as a birding lens leaves a little to be desired but I was happy to have seen him (it's a tawny frogmouth?) at all, let alone get some photos. Scared the crap out of me, I almost walked over him and he swooped up on top of the washing line and started glaring

[Shadowman]

Nice captures, doesn't appear to be afraid of flash either.

[TonyW]

That's nice, Jim. It looks like a tawny frogmouth to me but dumpy like a juvenile. They are typically not afraid of people around them.

[piggsy]

Nice captures, doesn't appear to be afraid of flash either.

Haha, yep, to say the least. I was waving the LED ring light and clip for the raynox around in one hand, and holding the camera/flash bracket in the other, trying to line them up so there was any light at all to AF with and flash vaguely pointed in the right direction

But yeah it was good to see one - haven't seen any of the tawnys around here for a while - so many cats on our block, there are a half dozen I know from sight already, pretty much anything that's slow on the ground has learned to stick to the creeks and mangroves.

[bnnrcn]

The bird stands out nicely with the dark BG and the head looks very sharp and clear in #1

[IzzieK]

I like the first one perched on the Hills Rotary...it's a cutie!!!