Today walking home from my bus stop I saw two very large birds circling some trees up the road. They had a massive wing span and I managed to gaze up at one as it flew right over me as I was walking along. The only thing I could think of with a wingspan of its size was a wedge tail eagle.
I live in a very green suburb. There's lots of trees. We have masses of lorikeets living around here, we can get up to 20 at a time on our small bird table on any given day which I think is quite good going... as well as that a lot of cockatoos (sulphur crested and a number of yellow-tail black cockatoos as well).
Given the numbers of tall trees and that it's a very new suburb with a lot of greenery and large blocks of land still untouched I can only guess that it's a possibility that it could well have been a pair of wedge tails circling the area.
Does this seem plausible, for Western Brisbane suburbs though...?
I wish I had photos. I was just too surprised to have potentially sighted them in the wild to take advantage of the opportunity to snap a pic on my iPhone :-O
I live in a very green suburb. There's lots of trees. We have masses of lorikeets living around here, we can get up to 20 at a time on our small bird table on any given day which I think is quite good going... as well as that a lot of cockatoos (sulphur crested and a number of yellow-tail black cockatoos as well).
Given the numbers of tall trees and that it's a very new suburb with a lot of greenery and large blocks of land still untouched I can only guess that it's a possibility that it could well have been a pair of wedge tails circling the area.
Does this seem plausible, for Western Brisbane suburbs though...?
I wish I had photos. I was just too surprised to have potentially sighted them in the wild to take advantage of the opportunity to snap a pic on my iPhone :-O