Hi all
as I was recovering from my swim this morning and doing some stretches at
one end of the Macquarie Uni pool at about 8:20am this morning, all the Masked
Plovers and Noisy Miners went off. A raptor could be seen approaching from the
south (Epping Road). It wasn’t a Sea-Eagle (too small) but looked like a kite.
At first I thought it would be a Whistling Kite, but to my surprise as the
bird came closer I could see the clean white head and chestnut wings/body, so
very surprisingly (for Sydney) it was an adult Brahminy Kite. I have never
seen a Brahminy Kite in the Sydney area before, and they are definitely not
common even on the southern end of Central Coast/Hawkesbury River to Sydney’s
north.
I wasn’t sure if it was the recently reported Hawkesbury River bird on an
excursion or a storm refugee from further north heading home. (The birdline
moderator noted that the Brahminy Kite reported from Spencer on the Hawkesbury
River has not been seen for over 4 months, so it seems it was another storm
front refugee.)
Birding can be so serendipitous - if it had come over about 3 minutes
earlier I would still have been ploughing up and down the pool and would
probably have missed it
Cheers
Tom Wilson
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