Southern Boobook

This Boobook was sitting on the track while I was checking the rice last night.

Nice shot! I only hear them in suburbia, but have never laid eyes on them.

Monty said:

This Boobook was sitting on the track while I was checking the rice last night.

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Ummm.... why does rice need to be checked at night?

I suppose that it's because of the brush-tailed possum "thieves"... I'm right?

Hix said:

Ummm.... why does rice need to be checked at night?

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I thought it was because of the herbivorous boobooks!!

Hix said:

Ummm.... why does rice need to be checked at night?

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Ducks

There are several thousand Plumed Whistling Ducks on the local sewerage ponds in town. They fly out every night to feed. I drive around the rice paddocks with the spotlight before I go to bed to make sure they are not at my place.

I was in town after dark a few days ago and the ducks were flying over about 100 at a time. I heard the whistling and looked up and could see them silhouetted against the sky before it was totally dark.