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Sydney - possible breeding Peregrines

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Subject: Sydney - possible breeding Peregrines
From: Tim Jones <>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:27:54 +0000
Penny, I worked in O'Connell Street up until about 5 years ago, and Peregrines 
were always a common sight, leaving me absently staring out of the window 
during business meetings. I even photographed one once, on a window ledge below 
my office (on the eighteenth floor of 12 O'Connell).



Having moved to Margaret Street, again on the 18th floor of a building, I still 
regularly see them outside my window coasting around the Sydney skies. Every 
chance they are still breeding in the city.



Cheers



Tim



> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:28:29 +1000
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Sydney - possible breeding Peregrines
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> Dear all
>
> My son rang me late two nights ago, from his office (he is one of those
> guys who works 16 hr days more often than not - for a bank) which is in
> O'Connell Street, Sydney centre just up from Circular Quay. He could
> hear a bird calling, high clipped piping calls, continuous. Of course
> can't open windows and couldn't see anything and the noise was coming
> from above - and he can't get on the roof. Then the calls got more
> excited and he heard a different call as another bird arrived, making
> similar noises and his attempts to imitate made me think of the kek kek
> kek calls of the falcons . To me, his description sounded like a
> Peregrine feeding a fledgling.
>
> Has any birder working in the City recently noticed Peregrines around?
> And are they still nesting on the harbour bridge ? - I seem to remember
> they were moved on when the bridge climb was set up.
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