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Black-shouldered Kites at Kambah

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Subject: Black-shouldered Kites at Kambah
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:53:06 +1100
I can add to that. I have just returned from a stroll at Kambah Pool. On the drive out there, on the Kambah Pool road I saw what I thought to be 2 adult and 2 young Black-shouldered Kites on a tree about 20 metres from the road and 150 metres past the corner of Mt Vernon Road (on the right facing towards the river). I stopped and turned around, during which time they flew and returned. Pity I don't have a camera, they would have been really easy to photograph (they often are). When I got back to them there was clearly on adult and three young birds. I suppose one of the adults flew off. I watched them for about 10 minutes. The young birds were calling a lot (a rather unpleasant rasping call). During that time a very distant pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles passed into my binocular view. As I was diverted by them a pair of Peregrine Falcons flew by in a spectacular chasing and diving display and I watched them till they disappeared over towards the Bullen range. The adult Black-shouldered Kite flew off and started hovering and dropped down to the ground apparently unsuccessfully. As soon as it flew up again the three young all followed it. They then settled on the same tree. I then saw that there was another young kite in the next tree. So it is at least a pair and four young. When I came back at 5:22 they weren't there.
 
To add to that, an adult pair of Kestrels with I assume a dy at Kambah Pool (and lots more as well). And a  Wedge-tailed Eagle doing the deep undulating display over the Bullen range.
 
Philip Veerman
24 Castley Circuit
Kambah  ACT  2902
 
02 - 62314041
 
-----Original Message-----From: Philip Veerman [ Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 5:43 PM
To: 'MJ and ME';      Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Black-shouldered Kites at Kambah

Good. Maybe young of the pair I saw on the Kambah Pool road on the 30 October. Although curiously that was the only day I saw them there, in several visits over the past few months. There is also an (almost certainly breeding) pair of Kestrels there.
 
Philip Veerman
24 Castley Circuit
Kambah  ACT  2902
 
02 - 62314041
 
-----Original Message-----From: MJ and ME [ Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 5:26 PM
To:      Subject: [canberrabirds] Black-shouldered Kites at Kambah

G'day All,
 
Late this afternoon I observed two juvenile BSK near the interection of Mt Vernon and Kambah Pool Roads. 
  
 Michael Kingsford
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