Photography Tawny Frogmouth that’s been hanging in my backyard for the last few days. Hopefully he’ll stick around. He’s not an owl as is commonly thought but part of the nocturnal Nightjar bird family. He definitely looks like a piece of camouflaged dead wood. Tawny Frogmouth that’s been hanging in my backyard for the last few days. Hopefully he’ll stick around. He’s not an owl as is commonly thought but part of the nocturnal Nightjar bird family. He definitely looks like a piece of camouflaged dead wood.