Hi all,
Today at about 1100am whilst working in my kitchen I noticed a bird flutter to the ground. On finding my binoculars, I discovered it was a brown Tawny Frogmouth – it had been lying on the ground for about a minute with wings widespread and head lowered and I at first wondered whether it was injured or sick. After about a minute it was joined by another bird which adopted the same posture and then another bird (both grey) – all up three individuals were lying on the ground with outstretched wings in a small sunny patch beneath some trees. Then after about 5 minutes, one by one, each bird sat up for about a further minute, looked around and then flew up to a roosting perch (where they are still perched even now at 4.15pm). A fourth bird (grey) flew across the other three as they sat up but did not join them on the ground.
My guess is that this is a family group and the behaviour was to enable the birds to warm up their body temperature after the recent rain and unseasonably cold weather experienced in SEQ in the past few days but would like to hear others comments.
Cheers,
Sandra Gallienne
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