Tawny Frogmouths (Podargus strigoides) are not owls, but are related to Nightjars. They are nocturnal birds, roosting and resting by day, and catching insects, frogs and other prey by night with their huge, wide, frog-like beaks. Frogmouths have exquisitely camouflaged plumage that blends with the bark and branches of trees. This family of Frogmouths – a male, two females and two fledged chicks lived in eucalyptus trees near the edge of Herdsman Lake near Perth, in Western Australia. The chicks were nearly big enough to leave their parents, and were perching together on a branch along side two adults birds, half asleep with drooping heads and eyelids. A few days later tragedy struck – we found one chick dead in the lake, covered in ants with the other chick gone. But life goes on – the male was sitting on another clutch of eggs in his flimsy nest in a tree fork, and one of the females was preening, then looking about with her huge yellow eyes.