Dear David,
Last week I also was suprised and delighted to watch a brown goshawk chasing
a black bird at the end of our tennis court. I haven't seen this before.
Perhaps it's another symptom of the drought and the lack of other prey.
We are not exactly in the suburbs - we live on an estate with one acre
blocks and lots of parklands on the side of the Warbies near Wangaratta.
Regards, Faye G.
At 09:14 AM 2/20/98 +1000, David Torr wrote:
> Yesterday my wife was disturbed by a lot of noise from the budgies in
> our aviary in suburban Bayswater (30km from Melbourne but definitely
> not the edge of the built up area).
>
> Upon investugating she saw an immature Brown Goshawk (possibly imm
> Collared Sparrowhawk - did not get a good enough look) perched on the
> roof of the aviary - no doubt looking for an easy meal (there is a
> chicken in the aviary as well - and free range ones in the garden that
> the hawk ignored!
>
> Is it unusual to see them n the suburbs?
>
>
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