The 2 known Canberra Little Eagle pairs have each raised one young. The Campbell Park bird left the nest tree today, a couple of days later than its counterpart last year, although one doesn’t know what earlier exploratory flights might have been made. The nest was completely obscured in a mistletoe clump and the adults were unobtrusive, so quite an achievement of Michael Lenz to pick it up. The Strathnairn fledgling was a few days earlier. The young show the typical rusty underparts. Which morph they will develop into is not certain, but all four adults are pale morphs and the wing pattern on the CP bird (the darker of the two young) suggests it will follow the pale pattern. If you see a rust-tinted LE around the suburbs in the next few months it will probably be one of these.
