Steve - I replied
directly to Margaret because I was making my cracked-record point about
limitations of photos for ID particularly of distant
raptors where you don't get the flight pattern but just the wing-stroke
frozen at a particular instant. I mentioned a harrier because of the
reddishness which was created by the saturation. Colour-saturation does
not help ID because it brings out unnatural reddish tones among other
things. Here is an unlikely colour-saturated W Kite:
Another possibility I mentioned, given the location, was
a Brown Falcon. That has the extreme ‘V’ configuration, as well as
fingered wingtips if the ‘freeze’ is at the right instant:
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Stephinson [
Sent: Thursday, 31 December 2009 12:58 PM
To: canberrabirds chatline
Subject: re.whistling kite
Margaret & Geoffrey --
I have been catching up on some emails. Am
surprised at the quick
response to my email at 12-03pm.
coming in at 12-16 & 12-15 respectively. You
people must be sitting and
waiting.
Margaret -- please don't "trash your dud photos
----". The chatline is
there for such a reason as yours.
I wonder how many cogers read the email and took the
image as gospel
without giving it some thought.
Even Geoffrey's initial thoughts were of an harrier which
I didn't know.
You are definitely not "stirring up any
controversy'' at all, just
making me observe & think.
Keep up the good work and best of luck with your eyes
& the optometrist.
Steve.
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