Tawny Frogmouth chicks 2018 more pics

They were really exposed tonight. Quite rare. The fourth bird is in this shot but impossible to see behind pine needles, and on another branch.

Phone cam digital zoom...but you get the idea. Two babies on the right. So fuzzy wuzzy!!

...this is not a frogmouth...

Tawny Frogmouth babies 2018

Update: Photo of baby visible on Thur 25th Oct 2018

!!! This is the 2018 chick/s!! Dunno why I wrote 2017 in the photoshop!!

Last year the local pair of Frogmouths at the park we walk in each night had a single chick. It finally left them (as an adult) some time mid-winter this year. The male has been nesting for the last couple months so we knew eggs were happening this year. The hen always roosts in her own tree across the creek on a long branch that gives her clear view of the nest. A fortnight ago we FINALLY got to see the chicks (plural!). Two HUGE monster babies were seen. A week ago they started waddling up and down the branch their nest is on, clinging to the branch, and flapping their wings. They're absurdly cute. Lil' fluffy owls bobbing their heads while looking straight at you is super cute.

Tonight they've finally had their first flight and are roosting x1 and x3 trees away. The adult pair are nearby the chick that's x3 trees away. The adults almost always roost amongst a row of about six pine trees along the creek in the park. There are common locations we virtually always find them in.

I don't have any new photos to speak of (edit: photos added above. Better ones eventually). Below are photos of last years chick when it was nearly full grown in January.

2017 chick and adults. The male and baby are together top-right of center. The huge fat female is down-left of center.

A slightly zoomed in view of the 2017 chick and adults. The female down low is almost at head height. This was one of the first times we saw this chick alive after hatching for MONTHS. We don't know what happened to their roosting routine, but we feared they were gone for the longest time that year. After this photo they returned to their regular roosting locations in the pine trees and we saw them almost daily till the middle of this year when the chick left, and the adult pair began nesting again.