This post shows photos of the two young Frogmouths produced by the
nesting parents featured in an earlier post dated Wednesday, 14 October 2015:
After observing the adult male incubating eggs by day for some time, they
eventually hatched and two young reached the size where their heads appeared
above the top of the nest rim.
When the young had reached a size where they could not be concealed
within the nest, I became concerned on one visit when I could only see one of
the young birds.
Adult with one young bird visible on nest. |
The missing young bird was found lying under the other two birds with its head just visible in the shade of a vertical branch – the photo exposure has been tweaked to make the missing bird clear. |
An adult plus two young were last seen on the nest by another observer on
Sunday, 8 November 2015. I last saw them on Friday the 6th and when
I visited the site on Tuesday the 10th, following a hot Monday, the
nest was empty and I could not find any of the birds nearby.
Last photo of the nest with just one young bird visible. The other young one is there - see next photo. |
Hopefully the two young birds left the nest successfully and are
roosting somewhere close by.
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