How Excited Were We....

How excited were we when we saw this beauty.  Initially it was sitting in our fig tree but moved into the nearby wattles when we arrived.  

                                                

It is a Boobook owl.  We hear them often at nighttime, but we've never been lucky enough to see one.  They have a distinctive hoot and are often called mopokes because of their sound.  We're really hopeful the fact that it was around during the day, and didn't fly away completely when we turned up, means it was just too stuffed with figs to move and not that it was unwell. 

Still excited!!