<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Seeing Tawny Frogmouths</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At nightfall the birds known as tawny frogmouth come out in family groups of three or four<br>They do not have a song the only sounds they do make is a sort of a low pitched nasal snore<br>In the wooded parkland they fly from tree to tree in their search for tree insects and flies<br>And they return to roost on their roosting trees at the dawning just before sunrise, <br>Quite expert at camouflage in their colours of brown lengthwise on a bare branch of a tree<br>In the bright light of day they look part of the branch they are almost impossible to see<br>Disguised from the prying eyes of predators in safety they rest Nature never ceases to amaze<br>Of her so little we do seem to know we are strangers to Nature's ways, <br>Related to the nightgars nocturnal insect eating birds though frogmouths far greater in size<br>For better vision in dimlight the night birds 'twould seem than day birds have far larger eyes, <br>I have seen the frogmouths at nightfall in the park near my home almost tame to them I approached near<br>Of human kind so little they seem to know so of humans they show little fear, <br>From tree to tree in the parkland they fly these quiet brown birds of the night<br>So well camouflaged on their bare roosting branch they seem part of the tree in daylight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567547" data-title="On Seeing Tawny Frogmouths de Francis Duggan" data-description="At nightfall the birds known as tawny frogmouth come out in family groups of three or four They do not have a song the only sounds they do make is a sort of a low pitched nasal snore In the wooded parkland they fly from tree to tree in their searc..."></div> </div> </div>

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