Kambah Pool Nature Reserve

[sandra henderson <>]

added a few more breeding observations this morning.

A recently fledged peregrine falcon was sitting in dead tree across the river, calling almost continuously, while an adult flew over a few times.

One of the noisy friarbird nests had two newly emerged youngsters sitting beside it. Another nest has young not yet fledged.

The black-faced cuckoo-shrike nest near track appears to have only one chick.

Buff-rumped thornbills are busy feeding youngsters in a nest beside the road.

Dollarbirds are nesting across the river in a dead tree, and sacred kingfishers were behaving as if they have a nest close by - both species very agitated by the currawongs.

Still a number of very young crimson rosellas in the trees above the carpark.

Satin bowerbird nest has youngsters flapping wings, so almost ready to fledge.

At least one dusky woodswallow on a nest, and others carrying food to other nests.

Magpie larks carrying food to nest in the casuarinas on river bank.

 

Just after I arrived one of the two wedge-tailed eagles took a sulphur-crested cockatoo in flight - same behaviour as seen last year at McQuoids Hill just up the road.

 

sandra h