I need Geoffrey. Remember the photos that he took a couple of years
ago of the claws of the spoonbills at Campbell Park? balancing on
thin branches of the willow, and also on the barbed wire? Well, I
now need him to take a photo of the claws of an osprey, perched on
the top of a dead upright branch of a small tree. The diameter of
the branch is only about 10cms. A metre or two away is the huge nest
of the bird, and an osprey chick was standing on it. It had urgently
been calling to be fed, and was brought a fish. The adult osprey was
very wet, as if it had dived into the Swan River to catch the fish.
The youngster had been testing its wings, as if it was thinking of
flying off before too long.
This nest is at Devil's Elbow, Peppermint Grove, overhanging the
river, if anyone else is coming this way in the near future and
wanted to see it.
There is another nest in a Norfolk Island pine, on the beach, Swan
River, Claremont. Recently a chick fell from that nest, quite a
height. It's leg was broken. An adult bird was also found. It had
been poisoned, by what, was not know. It was nursed back to health
and took off to join it's mate. This story was in the local Post
newspaper. The Devil's Elbow bird and nest, I have been seeing
often, when I come to the West
Mm, I know it's a bit far to come to Perth, to take a photo. It is
very, very hot here, not birding weather
Just saw Geoffrey's photo of the crested shrike tit. How long since
the last one was seen?
Elizabeth
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