Ausfire, that Tawny Frogmouth looks surprisingly like one of our gray morph Western Screech owls without the ear tufts:

 

Yes, very similar. Probably a master of camouflage too. You can walk right past a Frogmouth and miss seeing it because they look just like a broken branch.

Are those stainless washers or galvanized?

They were galvanized but I soaked them in muriatic acid to remove the galvanizing then into baking soda and water to neutralize them.  If I could have got plain steel I would have. Stainless would work nice too. 

21 hours ago, Andrew Martin said:

Ausfire, that Tawny Frogmouth looks surprisingly like one of our gray morph Western Screech owls without the ear tufts:

 

 

You know that our Frogmouth is not really an owl. Wide beak to catch insects and weaker feet only for perching. More related to our Kookaburra.

Having said that, there are many animals and plants that seem to have a counterpart in the American continent.  

And somehow that last sentence led me down the wobbly brain road to thinking about kangaroos with antlers..... 

I can't be all that bad tho, someone Else thought up the Jackalope. 

cue the picture of me wearing my smithing hat...

Ha ha, I was not thinking in some apocalyptic creature, more like the case of Araucaria genus that exists in different continents and islands under different species. 

Having said that without aiming at offending Thomas, we have creatures here that no one has confirmed they exist. 

There is a family of pumas on the Flinders ranges in South Australia, released a long time ago by a circus owner, and there is an elusive panther like creature allegedly marsupial that wanders the Blue Mountains and surroundings in the state of NSW

Of course we also allegedly have the Hawkesbury monster, something like the lock Ness monster and a Yeti of sort, and many other interesting and probably imaginary animals

Das, your welding is coming right along. 

Jackalope and chupacabra are endemic out here; we have any proof that Marc1 really exists?

 

Jackalope is good eating, chupacabra is not!

yeh, if you ask my neighbors we are infested with bigfeet down here. 

BigGun, Thank you. It's also amazingly easier to see what I'm doing since I got new lenses for my welding helmet. 

Marc, I know what you meant just sometimes my thoughts wander  

ugh... Bigfoot......