The Tawny Frogmouth Owl

These are usually a little more out bush but this lot decided to make a nest if you can really call the mess a nest.
But my wife noticed Magpies each morning going into this tree behind us in the yard behind our place.
We decided to go and had a real look and seen this in the fork or the tree about 30 odd meters up.
Regular as clock work the Magpies would do a coordinated diving attack at the one on the nest.
We had the chance to take shots for about 5 days until one morning the nest was empty.
We knew right away that the Magpies had finally got to the eggs or babies.
But you had to give credit to the Magpies for working out the right angle to come in and attack from.
So I have posted one shot of this happening.

Is the first shot got blurred somehow?What is there behind that owl? The second shot quite good though!

I think the first shot is the attacking magpie. Pretty cool having this going on where you can watch.

Sorry to hear the magpies succeeded. Good on you for that second shot, I love the look of the Tawny Frogmouth, despite its name.

Yes it was the Magpie doing a dive bomb on the Tawny.
The speed it came down at was fast. But then the other one would come in from the other angle.
One one of them we actually seen them get the Tawny by the wing and left it off the nest.
But on this day it stay lodged on the nest. But a couple of days later the Magpies finally won.
So yes the blur is a diving Magpie