Well, that was my first thought...But there was no sense of the sharp
division in chest/belly colouring, and even from that angle there
should have been some sign of the crest...surely? Then - size?
JLA
Peter Woodall <>
How about a Pacific Baza ( Crested Hawk)?
Your description sounds just like it & they are fairly
common around Brissie
Pete
At 12:23 PM 4/07/2003 +1000, you wrote:
Mid-afternoon on a locally cool, overcast 30 June, driving 110k/h
inbound on the Gateway, approaching the Bicentennial exit (a k or
two to go, & heavy traffic both sides), I saw, perched 30-or-so
feet above on a lamppost, the following bird:
- raptor
- front view from below, brief and rapidly magnifying
- medium to large
- classic 'guide book' posture/position
- largely slate-grey
- long tail, ventrally barred
- chestnut breast/belly
- belly barred--
And then it was gone!
WHAT could have sat just so in this place?
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Judith
Lukin-Amundsen
Brisbane
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