Eagle over Erindale

["Philip Veerman" <>]

The bird in that photo is with total certainty a juvenile White-bellied Sea-Eagle.

 

If you think it relevant (or even if you don't), I have fly over GBS records of both this species and Little Eagle at my Kambah site in past years.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----
From: sandra henderson [
Sent: Monday, 18 February 2013 7:35 PM
To: Margaret Leggoe
Cc: ; John Bundock
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Eagle over Erindale

Margaret - it flew straight over my place (also in Wanniassa), very high, at 6.30pm as I was watering the garden - and was headed in your direction - had come from Farrer direction.  I was thinking juvenile white-bellied sea-eagle - see the tail, which is not little-eagle-ish.  would appreciate confirmation from someone who's better at raptor ID.   The corellas, galahs, sulphur-crested were all wheeling about and creating a great hubbub.

sandra h

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Margaret Leggoe <> wrote:

I think this is a little eagle.  The cockies and parrots went berserk about half an hour ago, and I managed to get a shot of the reason for it.  Only a 200 mm lens, so can’t get better resolution than this.  I guess the JWNR doesn’t have much to offer at the moment.  I cannot recall another occasion of seeing a little eagle in this location.

Margaret Leggoe