OMG! This Powerful Owl has a Greater Glider. Just the tail is as almost as long as the POwl. I didn't even know there were Greater Gliders at this location in Brisbane. It's a shame to see an endangered species taken by a threatened one, but I'm still a bit impressed by the POwl.
Female Powerful Owl looking out of her nest hollow just after dusk. Yesterday she didn't leave the nest, but tonight she spent 5 min looking out then flew to spend 12 min with her partner before returning to the nest, perhaps not wanting to leave her egg(s) for too long.
#Owl #PowerfulOwl #WildOz #NestOMG! I didn't find any Powerful Owls this morning but there was this beautiful female Masked Owl in one of the roosts I was checking! Seeing a Masked Owl out in the sun is really unusual as they usually roost in old-growth tree hollows during the day. This one seems to have lots of 'W's on it's chest, perhaps for 'Wol'?
Tonight I was lucky & got to sound record the Powerful Owls calling: female (high pitch) then male (lower), then female bleating (like a sheep!), then them mating!!!! The mating was pretty incredible as they flew into a tree where I was only about 8m away from me.
https://youtu.be/71Mf9DjguQA
Female then male Powerful Owl calling, female bleating, Powls mating - sound recording
Superb Fairywren sketch. Every drawing is practice for the next.
Amazing! I could count the number of times I've seen an Owlet-nightjar on the fingers of one hand. And this is the first time I've ever seen out of its tree hollow during the day. Didn't see any of the Owls I was looking for there, but this more than made up for it.
#wildoz #owlet-nightjar
#notanowlFemale Powerful Owl (right) and the Powerful Owlet roosting together in the late afternoon.
The Powerful Owlet watching a Brush-turkey this morning.
#wildoz #powl #powerfulowl #owlThe Powerful Owlet. My goodness, that stare. You can tell that she is now fully operational and self contained as an Owl having developed from a egg about 6 1/2 months ago.
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