The Next Generation - little Little Eagle

[Julian Robinson <>]

I saw the FSP Little Eagle offspring (the subject of Geoffrey's
photograph) a day or two before it fledged - on the Sunday.  It was
then still nest-bound but once an hour or so would do it's pre-flight
exercises which (due to the absence of suitable adjacent branches in
pines) consisted of 'flying' around the rim of the nest.  

There's a somewhat messy animation showing this interesting behaviour
here...

 http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2075499718&size=o

 Warning!  Nearly 5MB, so dial-uppers have a cup of tea or read
an improving novel instead.

Julian


At 01:29 PM 29/11/2007, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:
> 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.  
>
>
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