Having said I haven't seen them much for a while, on Friday one flew right past
my window (in the old Amex building at the end of Hyde Park) attacking a raven
that had been mobbing it.
Bit more interesing than the spreadsheet I was working on...
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> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Sydney - possible breeding Peregrines
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:22:28 +1000
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> Tom said:
> (There's another Birding-aus correspondent - I forget who - that works
> about 2 blocks up next to Bathurst Street that has also seen them.)
>
>
> me, I'm on the 23rd floor of the HSBC building facing west. I see them
> fairly frequently but always briefly. Individual birds do seem sit on a
> building on either Pitt or one further over a block or so down towards
> Central that is a few floors lower than me.
>
> I've got a friend in chatswood who also sees Peregrines around his way.
>
> I had another friend who used to work in the TNT towers in Redfern who said
> they nested on top of that building. I don't know if that pair are still
> there as this was 5+ years ago.
>
> I think Tom is right - it's not is there a pair, but how many?
>
> cheers
>
> storm (who has been told she probably saw a whiskered tern)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> Behalf Of Tom and Mandy
> Wilson
> Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 8:10 PM
> To: Tim Jones; ; birding aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Sydney - possible breeding Peregrines
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>
> Hi all
> When I worked up at the north end of Sydney CBD in the Suncorp/AAPT/Qantas
> Holidays building (depends what vintage you are), I used to see Peregrines
> sitting on the louvres of the Grosvenor Building and the ledges on the
> Westpac Tower - I often wondered if they nested on the latter.
> Nowadays, I work at the south end of the City (World Square, between
> Liverpool and Goulburn Streets) and also see Peregrines regularly and I
> reckon I'd see more if I was higher up. (There's another Birding-aus
> correspondent - I forget who - that works about 2 blocks up next to Bathurst
> Street that has also seen them.)
> So the question might be not is there one pair, but how many pairs?
> Cheers
> Tom Wilson
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