Sorry for the late posting, but last Sunday 2/7/06 while on the
annual Cumberland Bird Observers Club Raptor count outing (where we
aim to see as many raptor species in a day around the Hawkesbury area
out of Sydney) we saw a Kestrel on the power lines near the turf
farms coming into Wilberforce just past Windsor.
It wasn't until looking at the photos i took of it later that i
realised it had a band on its left leg. The band is metal and
seemingly uniform grey with no obvious markings. The height of the
band is approx twice the width of the Kestrel's leg at it's thinnest
point.
Anyone interested?
Cheers
Dave Stowe
PS - we only managed 8 species or Raptor which was short of the
record of 13.
Black-shouldered Kite
Kestrel
Brown Falcon
Swamp Harrier
Brown Goshawk
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Peregrine Falcon (seen stooping from a great height and taking a
Magpie-Lark!! Awesome!!)
Little Eagle
Notable omission was Wedge-tailed Eagle
(A suspected Hobby turned out to be a juvenile Peregrine so our count
went down) (Trevor if you read this, email me so i can send you the
pic. Can't find your email sorry)
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