Several reports of migrating woodswallows today and a (relatively) warm
northwesterly compelled me to spend the evening at Sheperd's Lookout.
A pleasant surprise was a singing Chestnut-rumped Hylacola in the
regenerating Callitris just below the entrance to Woodstock Reserve.
Both male and female Peregrine Falcons provided alomost continuous
entertainment. The male caught a Crimson Rosella and soared high above
the female, plucking at its prey on the wing producing a trail of
feathers on the wind. I anticipated an aerial food pass but the male
just crried on soaring with its prize dispalyed prominently. A pair of
Wedge-tailed Eagles also capitalised on the windy conditions.
Hundreds of Welcome Swallows, Tree and Fairy Martins were feasting on
the plumes of wind blown insects from the Murrumbidgee Valley and just
after 5:00pm a chattering mixed flock of White-browed and Masked
Woodswallows appeared overhead briefly before heading off into the wind.
A light morph Little Eagle hanging on the wind rounded out the evening show.
Sheperd's Lookout is one of the gems in the crown of ACT birding;
sometimes interminably dull but at other times exhillarating.
Milburn
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