Monday, May 24, 2021

Eagle eyes and stork stalk finds birds but not nests


Bit of a slog through chest-high grass hiding many fallen trees along former sand road running north-south from near Jacana hide in Town Common Cons. Pk, Townsville, today hunting for possible White-bellied Sea-Eagle nest. Found one bird.


Think now birds are maybe using tree only as night-roost and day-perch. The pair have had two nests in dead tree close to cycle/walk track collapse in past three years.


Better photographic result today from ongoing effort to find nest of Black-necked Storks somewhere close to samphire flats at northeast of the Common, behind Pallarenda suburbia. Got lucky enough to just fit bird into full frame shot. But of the nest? No luck whatsoever.

2 comments:

  1. I love following the Sydney White Bellied Sea Eagle Cam, they are starting to restore the nest for anticipated egg laying mid June, Moyra :)

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  2. Sadly, I've never been able to persuade anyone to put cameras in place at raptor or Jabiru nests.

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