MrBL was at a mates place last night when a Tawney Frogmouth came in the cat flap flew onto the TV and sat there looking around at the roomful of 12 people.
Apparently he’s a semi regular visitor. The first time he flew in the open front door but now goes around the back into the laundry and through the cat flap. This happens every week or two.
He gets some meat and just hangs out.
Last night he was still there when MrBL left 2 1/2 hours after he flew in and some nights he has to be ejected so the house owner can go to bed.

I’ve got a photo but it was taken on a phone and it’s pretty crappy.

bubba louie said:

MrBL was at a mates place last night when a Tawney Frogmouth came in the cat flap flew onto the TV and sat there looking around at the roomful of 12 people.
Apparently he’s a semi regular visitor. The first time he flew in the open front door but now goes around the back into the laundry and through the cat flap. This happens every week or two.
He gets some meat and just hangs out.
Last night he was still there when MrBL left 2 1/2 hours after he flew in and some nights he has to be ejected so the house owner can go to bed.

I’ve got a photo but it was taken on a phone and it’s pretty crappy.

Wow. That is so awesome :)

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

MrBL was at a mates place last night when a Tawney Frogmouth came in the cat flap flew onto the TV and sat there looking around at the roomful of 12 people.
Apparently he’s a semi regular visitor. The first time he flew in the open front door but now goes around the back into the laundry and through the cat flap. This happens every week or two.
He gets some meat and just hangs out.
Last night he was still there when MrBL left 2 1/2 hours after he flew in and some nights he has to be ejected so the house owner can go to bed.

I’ve got a photo but it was taken on a phone and it’s pretty crappy.

Wow. That is so awesome :)

How cool. Have you tried to “fix” the photo? If you don’t have software to do it, if you email the photo to me on Facebook I’ll have a go for you

AnneS said:

bon008 said:

bubba louie said:

MrBL was at a mates place last night when a Tawney Frogmouth came in the cat flap flew onto the TV and sat there looking around at the roomful of 12 people.
Apparently he’s a semi regular visitor. The first time he flew in the open front door but now goes around the back into the laundry and through the cat flap. This happens every week or two.
He gets some meat and just hangs out.
Last night he was still there when MrBL left 2 1/2 hours after he flew in and some nights he has to be ejected so the house owner can go to bed.

I’ve got a photo but it was taken on a phone and it’s pretty crappy.

Wow. That is so awesome :)

How cool. Have you tried to “fix” the photo? If you don’t have software to do it, if you email the photo to me on Facebook I’ll have a go for you

It’s on MrBL’s mobile, but I’ll see what I can do tonight. It’s very blurred.

I suspect it must have been in care at some stage to have become so familiar with people.

It even hangs it’s bum over the dege of the TV to poo on the floor. LOL

bubba louie said:

I suspect it must have been in care at some stage to have become so familiar with people.

When I was a kid, the people living next door to us looked after a tawny frogmouth for a while. One of those weird childhood details that sticks in your brain :)

bubba louie said:

I suspect it must have been in care at some stage to have become so familiar with people.

I agree, as they are normally very shy birds. Weird and wonderful indeed :)

Amazing!!

The first time it happened our friend’s father was visiting and it came straight through the open front door and tried to land on the armchair his dad was sitting on. Scared the crap out of him. LOL

bubba louie said:

MrBL was at a mates place last night when a Tawney Frogmouth came in the cat flap flew onto the TV and sat there looking around at the roomful of 12 people.
Apparently he’s a semi regular visitor. The first time he flew in the open front door but now goes around the back into the laundry and through the cat flap. This happens every week or two.
He gets some meat and just hangs out.
Last night he was still there when MrBL left 2 1/2 hours after he flew in and some nights he has to be ejected so the house owner can go to bed.

I’ve got a photo but it was taken on a phone and it’s pretty crappy.

From bawdy duck stories to a house prowling owl. (I know he’s not a true owl) Jot them all down Bubba and write a book one day. I wish I had done it with the snake stories I have heard over the years.

Oh wow I wish I was there.

Pretty amazing stuff but this is possibly a bird that has had interaction with humans in the past.
In many cities, people feed birds.

In such cases birds may drop out of the sky and land in your breakfast at the drop of a hat, so to speak..

as happened to my daughter here.

Bubba Louie said:

Here’s what I was able to do Bubba. Not much, but it is a little better.

Thanks.

roughbarked said:

Pretty amazing stuff but this is possibly a bird that has had interaction with humans in the past.
In many cities, people feed birds.

In such cases birds may drop out of the sky and land in your breakfast at the drop of a hat, so to speak..

as happened to my daughter here.

we’ve got willy wagtails that fly into the house and “de-spider” it… I’m not sure if this is from many years ago when I picked up 4 little featherless babies, put them back in their fallen nest, and tied the nest to the beam from whence it fell (with pink baling twine)…but these willy wagtails will let me walk to within about 5 feet of them…sometimes they sit on the clothesline and waggle and chirp while I’m on the phone…

However I do not have a frogmouth that flies in…I think it is astonishing how that bird figured out to fly in through the cat flap…although this is the only way the willy wagtales can fly in sometimes, as the flap is tied open (it’s about 18 inches above the ground and the mother cat can’t cope if the flap is shut)…

geez I rave…

I have large windows and if I leave the sliding glass door open, I find many birds often try to fly straight through my house.

Until the trees grew large enough, many birds needed my rescue remedy after smashing into windows.. At one stage blood ran down my kitchen window as a kookaburra was intent on trying to smash either head or window.

Actually.. on reflection I would have designed the place with the lower panes openable so that the blue wrens could clean up inside as well.

roughbarked said:

I have large windows and if I leave the sliding glass door open, I find many birds often try to fly straight through my house.

Until the trees grew large enough, many birds needed my rescue remedy after smashing into windows.. At one stage blood ran down my kitchen window as a kookaburra was intent on trying to smash either head or window.

Actually.. on reflection I would have designed the place with the lower panes openable so that the blue wrens could clean up inside as well.

We got that when we worked at the library in town: birds flying straight through in the winter when the air con was off and the windows open…then breaking their necks against the windows in the summer…I think it was because the windows were so clean they could see the people inside but not the glass…

roughbarked said:

I have large windows and if I leave the sliding glass door open, I find many birds often try to fly straight through my house.

Until the trees grew large enough, many birds needed my rescue remedy after smashing into windows.. At one stage blood ran down my kitchen window as a kookaburra was intent on trying to smash either head or window.

Actually.. on reflection I would have designed the place with the lower panes openable so that the blue wrens could clean up inside as well.

Cool RB, I often get the odd one fly in and out of the double doors on the bar, always on the decking area cleaning up after the 2 galahs