Wedgie on Mugga Mugga

Kim F said :

Was about a metre tall. Magies and Currawongs weren’t happy with his/her presence

If it was about metre tall, it’s getting close to full size “A large brown bird of prey, it has a wingspan of up to 2.27 m (7 ft 5 in) and a length up to 1.06 m (3 ft 6 in).”

Some cool videos of them on YouTube, including one dude toying with them with a radio controlled aircraft. Not too cool to get too close to them with a spinning prop tho.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=dxDxcrusAew

Was about a metre tall. Magies and Currawongs weren’t happy with his/her presence

Lovely! I love raptors.

What a boss.

Can anyone give a rough estimate on the size of this bird? Looking at those pictures, it looks about 3-4 times the size of an average magpie.

Awesome pics. Such great animals.

Was recently at bredbo getting firewood when we drove past some sort of eagle dining on a road kill wild pig. The eagle was huge and just looked at us as we drove past.

Amazing. Wish I had a dash cam.

Awesome shots. “Biggest Eagle in the world” according to the Namadgi visitors centre.

Postalgeek said :

Chooks have a roof so not too concerned.

Some breeds of chooks will make a distinct sound/call when there is a preadator bird like that up high in the sky. It’s a good one to learn if you want them all to dart back into a saft back corner of their run for any reason.

You can often see wedgies circling high above the southern suburbs – but it takes some looking! Something up there caught my eye one day, and it was a wedgie, way up there, watchfully gliding. Beautiful.

Beautiful!

Brilliant Kim, this beastie does not appear to have vegetarian tendencies.
I wonder if this was the little hawk called Narrabundah by the aboriginal people.
Any expert advice from ornithologists or twitches? Welcome
Keep an eye out for it on the wing.