Apologies for not reporting in a much more timely fashion, but I saw roughly 10 or 15 black shouldered kites separately and at different times around the horse paddocks at the bottom of Coolemon Ridge (Namatjira Drive) over the early spring season (i can't be more specific with dates or numbers due to poor memory). I didn't look for nests and didn't notice young. I also saw a few at various times at JW, on lightposts over Northbourne Ave (around Deakin) and around Molonglo. Due to these obs i was under the impression that black shouldered kites were fairly numerous and therefore not newsworthy!
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> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:44:08 +1100
> Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] another one--kestrels
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> Not quite sure what is expected of this year so far, but I reported on a
> kestrel nest on Urambi Hills near Kambah in October & November 2012. I do
> not know the outcome beyond parents attending and bringing food to the nest
> over a period of 3 to 4 weeks. A couple months earlier I saw 5
> Black-shouldered Kites together with 3 clearly dependant young at the
> entrance gate to Lions Village on Kambah Pool road.
>
> Philip
>
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> From: Elizabeth Compston [
> Sent: Saturday, 5 January 2013 5:59 PM
> To: Birds Canberra
> Subject: [canberrabirds] another one--kestrels
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> Last year, when there was the mouse plague, several nests of kestrels were
> reported. As far as I am aware, this year there has only been the one
> report, of a nest, which failed, at the Russell offices
>
> And not many reports of black shouldered kites
>
> Elizabeth
>
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