Thread: Morepork in my Garden

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
I was just looking at doing some more trimming on some of the branches from the trees around our garage. I had just leant the pole saw against a branch I wanted to cut and something flapped away from the branch. We are used to that here with plenty of quail and the odd pheasant plus other stuff but the bird landed on another branch. I took a closer look and it was a Morepork that just sat on his new branch looking at me. We have them around here and hear them at night from time to time. I also spotted one feeding on the moths on the outside of our windows one night but this is the first one I have seen here during daylight. I have been zoomed by a few up in the bush when they were feeding under the canopy. Good to see them still here.
Regards Grandpamac.

I live within New Plymouth city limits fairly high up - can hear up to four male and female calling at night around the suburbs below me