Finally, a mention of the little project that took me to the
coast in the first place. This was to investigate reports of
what seemed to be a nesting territory of a pair of White Goshawks in the
coastal forest north of Merimbula. The project was not entirely successful
as I only got a general idea of the location of a nest. I had some kind
of view of an individual bird each day but given the terrain these were either
fleeting, obscured or distant. A typical one is below, showing a
bird about 200m distant, surveying its gully from a usual vantage point.
Photos into the sun of the female are on the left. The hunting male is on
the right. This was surprisingly small, looking more like a white
sparrowhawk. Note the delicate feet including the long middle toe. We
occasionally get this species in Canberra of course, but I don’t know of
any breeding records around here.
