I was out at Newline at 7.30 this morning and found 3 Swift Parrots feeding
quietly in a euc at the top end of the paddock. They took off in a south
westerly direction.
As I was leaving around 9.30, there was a commotion of white cockatoos
harassing a raptor as it came over the road from the military range. At first I
thought Little Eagle but the droopy wing shape was more suggestive of Whistling
Kite, until I saw the tail and it was clearly a Black Kite. A fairly dark bird
with indistinct underwing pattern. It flew over Newline but was chased back
over the military range by the cockatoos, and disappeared from sight. Difficult
to know whether it will hang around the area - the rubbish dump might be worth
checking out?
Regards
Frank Antram
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