Birds (feathered ones)

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

Ill pass on that. Its bad enough when i peragrin falcon just wants an inpection. Im no avion expert, but i beleive when the dive bomb another bird like say a homing pigeon, theyre one of the fastest in the world.
My apprentice at the time, knowing about the falcon and seeing about from inside refused to go on the roof with the lightning protection guy and myself. But after we came down was showing me videos off the youtube of eagles vs mountain goats. Food chain stuff really. Mountain goats are heavy, but the eagles drag them off the cliff face and drop them. Its savage but interesting about the adaptive hunting method.

There's a cliff walk around to Pearl Baech from Ettalong. We would ride this single track to get to Patonga mountain bike trail and do a loop back to Phegans Bay where we lived once. The Falcons there were beautiful to watch.
Once we came upon a fledgling that had fallen down from the nest, we wrap him in a towel we had which didn't have our scent on, so I could clamber up the cliff face and stick him back in while there was no sign of momma. We waited as momma returned and just simply fed the little bugger with the others non the wiser.
They say the parents will always reject the young if handled by humans but we disproved this there and then.
The old Pacific Hwy around Calga (mid week) is the perfect place to spot a Wedgetail on the ground feeding. Massive birds. We were lucky to see this several times riding there.