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Drawtober 6th "Toad-ish"

We don't really have toads where I live, so the next best thing for me is this little Motorbike Frog that I photographed in my garden some years ago, before neighbouring cats allowed to roam at night wiped them pretty much out. This was drawn with pen and ink that arrived today, courtesy of being informed about such things by my good friend @Steveg58 so thanks for the heads up. Larry Post is a dangerous, dangerous shop, that's all I know..

Motorbike frogs are fairly common around here, and their distinctive call does sound like a motorbike changing gears. As the year warms up now, if they were around, we'd be hearing them like we used to, but alas, we need to go further afield to one of the lakes to be sure of hearing them now.

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Drawtober the 5th.

The prompt today is Book, so let me introduce you to this little chap that we're starting to hear a bit more around here at night - the Southern Boobook. A lot of people think that the 'Boobook' sound it makes is actually being made by another famously muppet like bird, the Tawny Frogmouth, but no, those sound quite different. (The big nightjars known as Tawny Frogmouths are also called Mopokes, mistakenly again, the sound of the Boobook is being misattributed. They look even more muppet like than these birds.)

When the European colonists came, the (apparently) cuckoo like call at night popularized the topsy turvy nature of the country to them - seasons reversed and cuckoos calling at night.

*This* is a Southern Boobook, and in the days before digital cameras we actually saw one sitting on a low branch in a tree by the Karrinyup library which we thought was hilarious when it was pointed out to us in retrospect. Might have a print photo of it around somewhere. I tell you, the White-Cheeked Honeyeaters were going berko, that's one way to notice a roosting predatory bird around here.

Huh, I should've had it reading Islands of Angry Ghosts, a Southern Boo-Book!

Here in Whadjak Nyoongar Boodjar, Southern Boobooks are known by some Nyoongar people as Nyawoo-Nyawoo, and that's what's taught in the LOTE classes in schools, but what I was taught by Auntie Sharon in Nyoongar Language class was Kookoomet, so that's what I use. To the south east, you might hear Goobayin.

Thank you to Auntie Sharon Gregory and to the authors of "Djerap Noongar Birds"

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