Below is the sole FSP Little Eagle chick, now taking its
first flights, although of just a few metres as of this morning. It seems
intermediate between its parents, although favouring the mother.
Curiously, in spite of the Canberra Times assertions about
the last ACT LEs nesting in the lower Molonglo, this nest (I think the ACT’s
only one this year) is in full view of the Canberra Times building, perhaps
500m away. I hope that assessment was all their own work, because I’m
told that construction work early next year might adversely affect this site,
and if we keep coming up with new ‘last refuges of the Little Eagle’ they might
stop believing us – if they did anyway.
