Philippine Nightjar

The many very early mornings (2.30am starts) and evenings spent searching for owls, nightjars and frogmouths was hard work with only a few seen well and many more seen poorly or only heard.  The Philippine Nightjar was one of the latter with just typical silhouette views until we discovered this little gem next to where we had parked up for a coffee break.

 We later discovered the reason it was showing so well and reluctant to leave the area was because it was incubating two eggs.  We quickly moved the car and retreated to let the bird return to the nest.