Fledging time
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| A full-grown Wedge-tailed Eagle chick stands on the edge of its eyrie |
Yesterday, while out helping the with a university survey of woodland birds I was fortunate in being posted to a site near where a pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles have a nest. The single chick in the eyrie was well grown and ready to fly. And what a wonderful launch-pad from which to make one's first flight.
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| The eyrie is set high in a Blakely's Red Gum |
Meanwhile the adults soared around overhead and up over the adjacent hilltop, dipping down to watch me as I walked on out of the area. No doubt they had been watching me all the time.
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| An adult flies overhead - keeping an eye on me |
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