Hi all I am spending a bit more time than usual at home at the moment, which gives me a bit more time to suss out what happens bird wise around my neighbourhood in the week. Over the last couple of weeks, it has been a particularly busy for raptors in my neck of the woods. I have four regulars, plus a number that pass through (or overhead I suppose) or are seen regularly but less frequently. I am not sure whether this part of Turramurra (or Sydney?) has a feature that attracts these birds, although we (vaguely) are on a ridge line that runs down to Bobbin Head in the Ku-Ring-Gai National Park Many thanks to the local Noisy Miner population for their assistance with these observations, as follows: – a Black Shouldered Kite went over on 30 July heading westerly – a Kestrel also passed over on 30 July as well, heading north – a Whistling Kite passed over northwards on 10 Aug – a Black Kite flopped over heading south-west on Sunday 15 Aug – Grey Goshawk seen on Thursday (about 30 feet above the house – filled the bins for a great view. This is a resident but I don’t see them that often) For the regulars – a single Pacific Baza has been seen four times (also not popular with the Lorikeets as well as winding up the Noisy Miners) – Peregrine seen on 4 separate days, including yesterday when I saw it do a stoop (but didn’t see the end result) – local Brown Goshawk and Collared Sparrowhawks have been seen several times So that’s 9 raptor species across just over a fortnight. Plus there has been a flock of 15 or so Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos about, plus the regular local collection of parrots. Cheers Tom Wilson
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