black-shouldered kite

This fellow was sitting on the end of a little jetty at Richmond Lake, Rockingham, Western Australia. So I zoomed in with my trusty camcorder for this strangely soft-focus-like result.

Black-shouldered Kite

I was out checking for eggs in the hen coups because the local Aust. Raven keeps pinching them from the nest boxes when I spotted the B/S Kite sitting quietly on the dead fir tree just above my head. I hadn't touched the camera for some months and this species was always a favorite of ours, love...

A stealth bomber with piercing red eyes. These guys are very efficient raptors mainly hunting small rodents and reptiles.

Suddenly Ken spotted a white blob in a distant tree, so I took a picture to see if that helped with the ID, and it confirmed his thoughts that it was a Black-shouldered Kite. Giving me yet another Life bird! "Black and white" doesn't really do him justice though, does it. He's stunning.

First seen very distant but managed to get closer, although light not very good Thanks goodness for Photoshop

First time I saw this bird when it was a little too dark and his eyes looked black to me and overall I was under impression that all the extraterrestrial creatures in those Hollywood movies were created based on the looks of this bird. But when I saw this bird another day I could not believe how...

Hi all, had to share this one with you, taken at the back of my place. We've had a mice plague for three months and this one has become a resident, along with its mate! The mice have been getting into the house but now we've managed now to keep them outside.We have urged all local landcare...

Been raining here on and off for the last week now and more to come so trips out with the camera are quite infrequent.

Hi all, thought to share my B/S Kite with you all, it had been eyeing off our baby chicks when a few R/R Parrots came across for their evening drink and startled it, R/Rumps didn't stick around :) Alex (my granddaughter) has just raised a few chicks in her incubator and had transfered them...

Notice the tail hanging down from the branch! I'll be off-line for a few days. Tomorrow we fly to Cairns and drive to Possum Valley http://www.possumvalley.com.au/ (Blackbean Cottage). It's set in the Atherton Tablelands in rainforest and the cabin deck overlooks a platypus pond. Well...

Dull but much warmer today so ventured out with the camera. Watched as the Kite caught a mouse and then landed in a tree to feed. All really too far but thought I would share it anyway. Ken