Willie Wagtail 'sky surfing' a Little Eagle

[Penny Brockman <>]

Hello Alastair,

I have seen Willies dancing on a Kookaburra while sitting on my garden 
fence, and a Red Wattlebird riding on a Kookaburra and then hanging on 
to its tail.
> Yesterday morning I watched an interesting interaction between a Willie
> Wagtail and a Little Eagle over West Macgregor grasslands in the ACT. The
> Little Eagle was circling over the grasslands at a height of about 50m when
> a Willie Wagtail rose from the ground and climbed to meet the eagle. It
> approached the eagle from behind and proceeded to perch on the flying
> eagle's rump. The Willie Wagtail would then back off before making another
> approach and doing the same thing. This went on for about a minute and four
> approaches before the Willie Wagtail broke off the 'sky surfing' and
> returned to terra firma. 
>
>  
>
> I have seen a series of photos from the US of the red-winged blackbird doing
> the same thing to a raptor, but this is the first time I have observed such
> behaviour. HANZAB mentions this in-flight perching behaviour other raptors
> including a Willie Wagtail observed to perch on the wing of a Whistling Kite
> and one perching on the back of a Brown Goshawk.
>
>  
>
> Regards
>
> Alastair
>
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