On Shipley Plateau this morning I was watching a Wedge-tailed Eagle
in an undulating display flight over the cliffs. Suddenly the air was
filled with the alarm calls of honeyeaters, signalling something more
dangerous (to birds) than this eagle, but I was too transfixed by the
soaring Wedge-tail to take my binoculars off it. And I didn't have
to. Within moments, a Peregrine Falcon appeared in the field of view,
furiously flying at the eagle in a series of divebombs.
After this brief interaction, the Peregrine disappeared as quickly as
it appeared, while the eagle leisurely cruised along the very edge of
the clifftop as if nothing had happened.
I'd watched a similar interaction between another Peregrine and
Wedge-tailed Eagle only one week earlier at Kings Tableland.
And when I returned home today, there was a pair of Peregrines in a
display flight over Katoomba town.
All these locations are in the upper Blue Mountains, about 100km west
of Sydney, NSW.
Cheers
Carol
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Carol Probets
Guided birding in the Blue Mountains & Capertee Valley
PO Box 330
Katoomba NSW 2780
Web: http://www.bmbirding.com.au
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