About a year ago we had a pair of Peregrines in a park in Werribee.
One day (the day before I was due to lead a BOCA outing to the area!)
I saw them being mobbed by a flock of Sulphur-cresteds - and I haven't
seen them since. So maybe this one was trying to get revenge????
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:40:06 +1100, michael norris
<> wrote:
> Three Gang-gang Cockatoos were on the Brighton Golf Course on Tuesday
> morning (22/3). They have been there or at the nearby Dendy Park in four of
> the last five years, sometimes staying for months.
>
> Today a robin, probably a Flame Robin, was seen near the Clock Tower in
> Black Rock. If confirmed this would beat the earliest first arrival on our
> database by one day.
>
> On 16/3 I had the amazing experience of seeing a peregrine making a shallow
> dive at a screeching sulphur-crested cockatoo in Beaumaris. It circled and
> soon headed towards me, dropped its talons, and passed 5 to 10 metres (I
> reckon) overhead. 20 minutes later presumably the same peregrine dived
> towards 7 cockies perched on a big banksia.
>
> An inexperienced or desperate bird ?
>
> Michael Norris
> Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife
>
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