Sleeping Powerful Owl #brisbane #birds #wildoz

One of the parents of the Powerful Owlet was roosting a few metres away in another tree. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet in a suburban Brisbane park this morning. I couldn't see its sibling, but hopefully it was just tucked away nearby. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet holding a piece of bark. In 5 years of monitoring Powerful Owls we've never seen one holding a non-prey item before. Weird. Sometimes in the evening you'll see the Owlets practicing attacking branches and vines, sometimes even flying with them, but not this. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet this morning in a suburban Brisbane park. This is one of a new family of Powerful Owls we found almost 3 weeks ago for the first time. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

The newly-fledged Powerful Owlet sleeping in the rain this morning. It was in the next tree to the hollow tree and about 20m up, so its flying must be OK. They have very short tails at this age which we speculate make steering a bit tricky. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet in a Brisbane park last night leaving the hollow it hatched in and taking its first hop fly. You can hear its mama bleating to the Owlet as she watches on from nearby. It'll not return to the hollow. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

A new Powerful Owlet looking out of a previously unknown nest hollow. And then as I was watching the Owlet and its parents, fireflies began surrounding me and the nest tree. A good night out.

I'm really looking forward to doing Powerful Owl pellet analysis with @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social and Andrew Dinwoodie from @birdlifeoz.bsky.social with the Grade 5s from Tamborine Mountain College tomorrow. They get so excited when they find a possum jaw or a bat claw in their pellet.

It is astonishing how quickly when out of the hollow the Owlets switch from a look of slightly overwhelmed worry to one of very centred intentness. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

The Papa of the Powerful Owlet asleep about 3m away. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Peaking Powerful Owlet #brisbane #birds #wildoz

The Powerful Owlet looking like it was thinking about fledging two nights before. It waited one more night. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet on its 1st day in the sun having fledged from the hollow the previous night. In the evening the adult female went to the hollow & came out with a Ringtail Possum tail. This is super interesting as we're not aware of Powerful Owls being known to cache food in the hollow. #birds #wildoz

The older sibling of the new Powerful Owlet. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

A new Powerful Owlet! 2 weeks ago at this location, there had been one Owlet, but there must have been another one hiding in the tree hollow as today there were 2. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Checking on the Powerful Owlet that fledged on the 4th of July ("Jefferson", also showed interest in airplanes) it was the classic "that's some really good scat on the ground", looks up, "Oh." #brisbane #birds #wildoz

A new Powerful Owl family! About 4 years ago, a friend mentioned her friend had heard a Powerful Owl from her house. These proved very elusive over the years, and we'd pretty much given up on them thinking that they had perhaps been hunting and didn't live there ... #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet in a Brisbane park this morning. The family of 4 POwls were all in the same tree still quite close to the nest hollow, but it's quite a busy park so each breeding season the adults move the new Owlets to a quieter bit of bush nearby. That hasn't happened yet. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Male Powerful Owl asleep at dusk yesterday. He and his partner have an Owlet in a nearby hollow that should emerge in the next week or so. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owl pair in suburban Brisbane this morning, female with a Ringtail. Though the female went into the tree hollow for almost 2 weeks, breeding didn't work out. Hopefully they have better luck next year. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

A new Powerful Owlet yesterday that fledged out of the hollow the previous night! It was roosting in the same tree as its parents (the brown blur to the left is its mama). This seems to be a very successful Powerful Owl pair, making two new Owlets every year like clockwork. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

A new Powerful Owlet! This was from a newly-found-this-year pair & nest hollow. Its floofy front seems quite brown ... not sure if it's an unusual morph or bathing in brackish water. From the feather development it looks like it may have been out of the hollow for a while #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Floofed-up Powerful Owlet #brisbane #birds #wildoz

When you find a lot of whitewash on the ground, always look up. The Powerful Owlets mama was in the next creek down the gully. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Checking in today on the Powerful Owlet that fledged from the hollow on 4th July it seemed to be doing well and was high up in a gum tree about 6m away from its mama. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

The Powerful Owlet last night in the hollow tree as it was fledging, leaving the hollow it hatched in forever. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

The mama of the newly-fledged Powerful Owlet was in the next tree and had dinner ready for later. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

First Powerful Owlet of the season!!!! By far the earliest we've ever seen, by about 3 weeks. We actually saw it fledge last night, but didn't realise it. It was about 40m from the hollow and about 15m up, so it must be quite a good flier already. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

It should not be 20C at 9pm in Brisbane in Winter. It's no wonder the owls are confused about breeding season.