Bird of the Week: 9th September - carnivores!

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Holly
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Bird of the Week: 9th September - carnivores!

Good morning everyone. Another gorgeous spring morning here. I have seen quite a few birds flying around with nesting material over the last week - it will have to be a theme soon! But this week - lets see all those birds who find other birds (and lizards, and frogs and mice etc etc) - the carnivorous ones...

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Here's my small collection of BOPs:

Elsie
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Great photos nathan! Here is a Pacific Bazasmiley

dicutting10
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Here are a couple more, first photo evil looking group 2 kites and a crow, 2nd kite at sunrise, I stood for such a loooong time waiting for this shot of him flying off the branch and thirdly the brahminy kite, fabulous looking bird

Diane - Canberra

rawshorty
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Well the Raptors seem to be popular, so i'll continue with them (my favourite birds)

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Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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Besty
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Great photos all yes I love these birds , ive got a few ill put half up wink

davethewonder
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Wow wow wow. So many amazing photos. Such incredible photos in flight by Nathan, Di and Rawshorty! Tough to do. I do love that hovering kestral. And Besty, Letterwing Kites and Grey Falcons are so tough to see, let alone photograph. One day I hope to see them. Might have to travel out into the desert for those ones. 

Like Besty, I don't think this covers even half of my photos, but here are some of the better ones. I even threw in an owl, since they are night-time carnivores wink

 

Dave, Sydney. 

Silvereye
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Fantastic photos one and all! I am fairly new to bird photography so only have a few in my archive somewhere. Black Kites were like the town's seagulls in Normanton, Queensland when we went there 6 years ago so I got some shots of them and some Nankeen Kestrels on a lighthouse somewhere too. 

I hope to add to my collection one day! In the meantime please accept my only carnivorous bird of recent times. Not quite what you had in mind perhaps! 

Kim

Melbourne – South-East

Araminta
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I just found one of my oldest photos, taken with a little camera I bought at Aldi for $78.

M-L

Araminta
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Here is a Nankeen Kestral I have posted before.

M-L

Araminta
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He's a carnivore. He'll eat anything he can get his beak on, even fish&chips. (but that is very sad to seecrying)

M-L

Araminta
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White-winged Chough enjoying his catch.

M-L

Araminta
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Willie the carnivore yells out: hey Kite, watch out I'm going to eat youdevil

M-L

Silvereye
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Here are some carnivores from my archive. Nankeen Kestrels in WA and a Black Kite from QLD.

Kim

Melbourne – South-East

pacman
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I'm just finishing a short period of leave, a Christmas Island Goshawk or 3

Peter

Karen
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I don't have any new BOPs but here are a few favourites from within the last year...

Karen
Brisbane southside.

greviousbh
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First off I am at best a VERY amateur twitcher, I restrict my birdwatching to the front and side porches (we live on 50 acres in the bush, sans any pets) so if I have the names wrong, please correct me :)

Jacky Winter with snack

Brown Goshawk

Not sure ! (kidding)

EDIT:
Not sure why the BBcode IMG tag is not working ? :( so I posted links below

http://trevors.smugmug.com/Menucha-nechona/Fauna-MN/2013/i-hP39hHG/0/L/_DSC1632-L.jpg

http://trevors.smugmug.com/Menucha-nechona/Fauna-MN/2013/i-XSWQZWt/0/L/_DSC1904-L.jpg

http://trevors.smugmug.com/Menucha-nechona/Fauna-MN/2013/i-7FZ9HfP/0/L/DSC_5372-L.jpg

ihewman
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NathanY wrote:

Here's my small collection of BOPs:

The first photo comes complete, with prey! cheeky

Brandon (aka ihewman)

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ihewman wrote:
NathanY wrote:

Here's my small collection of BOPs:

The first photo comes complete, with prey! cheeky

I'm still not quite sure what it was, maybe half a frog?

kathiemt
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Kookaburra with worm.

Black-breasted buzzard

Two whistling kites

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

Araminta
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Nice photos Kathie, love the Kookaburra and the Whistling Kites. Just one question, don't you think the second bird is a Wedge-tailed Eagle?

M-L

kathiemt
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It could be but I believe that's what they said it was when at Healesville some time ago. But perhaps I misunderstood what they were saying.

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

Araminta
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Hi Kathie, I recognize him, they do fly a Buzzard as well, but this bird is their Wedged-tailed Eagle. Here is a close up of the same bird, taken a few years ago at Healesville Sanctuary.

M-L

sue818
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Finally managing to get pics in order from the trip round Australia so here are a few raptors. Hope that the ID is correct but please let me know if I have made a mistake.

Silvereye
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Wow Sue! These are great shots! I didn't see near as many as you when I traveled around Australia. Great share!

Kim

Melbourne – South-East

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