Evan Beaver wrote:
Don't put too much faith in the actual identification, this is more a
message for interest, but it's hard to identify a bird from 25m as
your train whizzes past. Saw what my best guess thinks was a Nankeen
Kestrel on a light post at Parramatta Station early wednesday morning.
I suppose the local pigeons would be an enticing and pretty easy meal.
I'd just never associated birds of prey with City living.
Evan
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Evan Beaver
Lapstone, Blue Mountains
Twenty years ago in Melbourne, the suburban trains used to be stabled
overnight in the Flinders St railyards - now they are kept at suburban
termini. As far as I can tell rubbish used to be swept out from
carriages there and some at least ended up on the tracks. Nankeen
Kestrels and Black-shouldered Kites used to hunt resultant rats and mice
there.
At one time the former Russell Street Police Building was one of the
higher locations in the city - 7 or 8 stories on a hilltop, plus radio
masts. The kestrels bred there before and maybe after 1960.
Modern skyscrapers could give them higher lookouts but perhaps city
locations don't have such supplies for prey such as rodents these days.
The kestrels also took some sparrows and starlings which roosted in city
parks.
Inner Melbourne still has lots of foxes. They come up the drains from
the Yarra.
Anthea Fleming
Ivanhoe (Vic)
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