For about a week a group of three wedge-tailed Eagles have been in the vicinity
of Percival Hill. My presumption was that this was the two parents and a
juvenile. They were too high to make a proper ID but one of the three seemed
more tentative than the others and certainly the most spooked by the mudlarks
which keep trying to drive them away. This morning I was in my back veggie
garden and they came low and sat in a tree across the creek, about 100 metres
from my back fence. They were eying the Pacific Black ducklings on the bank of
the creek. Two of them swooped down and one of them took one. I was able to get
a good view of the third eagle which remained in the tree with binoculars and
it was definitely young, brownish above and lighter underneath when the three
eventually took off. Great to see them breeding.
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