sea eagle

[jude hopwood <>]

Dear All,

 

Thursday afternoon, juvenile White-bellied Sea Eagle, cruising low across paddocks across from the seminary on Braidwood Road, my first sighting away from the coast. 

 

Any ideas?  Friday morning, 7:15, on the Collector Road, Bungendore end, a kestrel shaped raptor, pointed wings, but flying with a long and distinctly flared tail.  Brown, not cream or white, overall. Not more than a quick look, but I did not get the feeling that it was right for a peregrine, which I saw crossing the Braidwood Road on Thursday (He was flying...) near Painters Lane - not a regular sight in that area.

 

Also, very exciting for me, just prior to sighting the above raptor, a pair of Brush Bronzewing socializing on the Collector Road near the Old Currawang House turnoff.  Not something I've seen here before.  I was actually going to work, not specifically birding.

 

Have new (again), small bird calls on our own block at Currawang, that I can't yet identify.  Have heard them now for a few days. they have all the WB scrubwrens and fairy wrens in an uproar, but I suppose they are refugees from more flooded zones, and if so, I think I have to pray for more rain. 

 

Jude