Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺
@doktrnick.bsky.social
Owlcaholic; Bird photography and drawing; Owl Club; Powerful Owl Project; Bird banding; also biomaths, machine learning, bio-imaging; Brisbane, Australia
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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺
@doktrnick.bsky.social
· Nov 13
A terrible photo as the sun had set, but Powerful Owl pair catching up after dusk having roosted 100m apart all day. The female was roosting only about 50m from a nest hollow, and at dusk they investigated it with the male perched and looking in, which is crazy early in the year.
#birds #wildoz
#birds #wildoz
February 19, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Learning to use Aquarelle pencils, Australian Boobook sketch. This Boobook was a surprise in that it was living in a known Powerful Owl nest hollow. Fortunately, the POwls chose to have their 2 Owlets in another hollow that season. Every drawing is practice for the next.
February 17, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Learning to use Aquarelle pencils, Australian Boobook sketch. This Boobook was a surprise in that it was living in a known Powerful Owl nest hollow. Fortunately, the POwls chose to have their 2 Owlets in another hollow that season. Every drawing is practice for the next.
Nice! This is in the current Land for Wildlife magazine. Great to see the @birdlifeoz.bsky.social Powerful Owl Project getting coverage, and nice to be name checked :-)
February 12, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Nice! This is in the current Land for Wildlife magazine. Great to see the @birdlifeoz.bsky.social Powerful Owl Project getting coverage, and nice to be name checked :-)
I'm not too unhappy. I'm learning a lot from the work of William T. Cooper. Every drawing is practice for the next.
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I'm not too unhappy. I'm learning a lot from the work of William T. Cooper. Every drawing is practice for the next.
I'm planning to add some colour, so I thought I'd photograph it before I screw it up. From a William T. Cooper sketch, Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo. Every drawing is practice for the next.
February 9, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I'm planning to add some colour, so I thought I'd photograph it before I screw it up. From a William T. Cooper sketch, Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo. Every drawing is practice for the next.
February 7, 2026 at 1:38 AM
It still surprises me how Powerful Owls can dilate their pupils independently. I suppose its very useful if you spend a lot of time in dappled light.
February 6, 2026 at 11:21 AM
It still surprises me how Powerful Owls can dilate their pupils independently. I suppose its very useful if you spend a lot of time in dappled light.
At dusk today I found this Powerful Owl pair quite quickly. I couldn't see the Owlet they had raised anywhere, so I began to wonder if it had left to find its own territory. It's that time of year. Well after sunset I found the Owlet only 30m from the nest hollow it had hatched in many months ago.
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
At dusk today I found this Powerful Owl pair quite quickly. I couldn't see the Owlet they had raised anywhere, so I began to wonder if it had left to find its own territory. It's that time of year. Well after sunset I found the Owlet only 30m from the nest hollow it had hatched in many months ago.
I went back at dusk to get more information about the new Powerful Owl. At 6.58pm it flew then called for 4 minutes from ~200m away (by my car #carparkbirding), the call confirming it's male. No female sighted or heard, but she may have been tucked away somewhere.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
February 4, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I went back at dusk to get more information about the new Powerful Owl. At 6.58pm it flew then called for 4 minutes from ~200m away (by my car #carparkbirding), the call confirming it's male. No female sighted or heard, but she may have been tucked away somewhere.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
A new Powerful Owl! @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social and I had been to this site several times, and had found evidence ... feathers, scat, a pellet. But finally it revealed itself.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
A new Powerful Owl! @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social and I had been to this site several times, and had found evidence ... feathers, scat, a pellet. But finally it revealed itself.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Difficult to know exactly what the Tawny Frogmouth chick was up to here.
February 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Difficult to know exactly what the Tawny Frogmouth chick was up to here.
The parents weren't really interested, but the baby Tawny Frogmouth had to look at everything that went past.
February 2, 2026 at 4:47 AM
The parents weren't really interested, but the baby Tawny Frogmouth had to look at everything that went past.
A new Powerful Owl site found this morning in a Brisbane conservation area. That's the 3rd new site @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social & I have found and seen POwls at this year, and another with scat/pellets/POwl feathers, but no POwl seen yet. So a very good start to the year.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 AM
A new Powerful Owl site found this morning in a Brisbane conservation area. That's the 3rd new site @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social & I have found and seen POwls at this year, and another with scat/pellets/POwl feathers, but no POwl seen yet. So a very good start to the year.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
Powerful Owl pair sleeping at dusk in a Brisbane conservation park yesterday. After sunset they were allopreening ("kissing"). There was a sign at the entrance saying there would be burn offs, so the Powerful Owl Project will get in touch today to say the POwls are there & where the nest hollow is.
January 29, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Powerful Owl pair sleeping at dusk in a Brisbane conservation park yesterday. After sunset they were allopreening ("kissing"). There was a sign at the entrance saying there would be burn offs, so the Powerful Owl Project will get in touch today to say the POwls are there & where the nest hollow is.
From William T. Cooper, Peregrines. Every drawing is practice for the next.
January 28, 2026 at 4:02 AM
From William T. Cooper, Peregrines. Every drawing is practice for the next.
Male Powerful Owl waking up at dusk yesterday. After sunset he flew around calling for almost an hour, possibly establishing territory. The POwls that still have an Owlet in their territory don't seem to be calling now, those without an Owlet do, but we need more data.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
January 27, 2026 at 12:05 AM
A Koala in a small cluster of trees that also contained 2 Powerful Owls this morning! The POwls were about 12m away on either side of it. It's their regular non-breeding season roost, so you'd think the Koala would know better. But it was big enough that it should be fine.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
January 26, 2026 at 1:34 AM