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got up this morning and saw this fella sitting right next to my front steps

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BTW it is a tawny frogmouth

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Pretty bird! Been ridding you of insect pests?

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i think he might have been chasing geckos

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He looks sleepy. Of course, If I'd been up all night chasing the geckos on my front porch, I'd be sleepy also.

Now that IS cool. How close did it allow you to get?

as close as i was game lol , about 5 inches away to get the close ups, it would open its eye a fraction to look and then go back to sleep when i left it. it stayed there all day and flew away calmly when it got dark. my little girl, 2 yr old, was the one who spotted it first, i was leaning over the railing putting a bag of rubbish in the bin when she said dad and pointed i turned my head and the bird was about a foot away looking back at me

i seem to get lots of birds in my yard , because i trained my dogs to chase cats i have some other photos somewhere of a hawk eating a mouse in the back yard, and the figbirds always try to eat off my chilli bush

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Haha! Just goes to show that stillness is the best camoflage.

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