This was another very good day of bird photography at Malabar Headland National Park. My main interest was the pair of resident Peregrine Falcons – but they didn’t appear active until close to 2 pm. So I spent the morning looking for whales and other birds.
Whales were poor. I probably saw about ten, but they were all a long way out to sea and none were breaching. I did see two pods of dolphins. One of them was relatively close but there were not many dolphins in the pod, and it was hard to try and predict where a dolphin would appear.
Earlier, when I arrived at the entrance gates – there was a Golden-headed Cisticola singing a welcome.
And as I walked out, a few New Holland Honeyeaters were around.
The one above is just about to grab an insect.
While I waiting for the Peregrine Falcons to appear, I spied a very distant raptor. I think it is a White-bellied Sea Eagle, carrying a fish.
After I had lunch, I was wandering around the south side of here headland, when I saw a Peregrine Falcon flying past at high speed. I grabbed a few photos of it, and could see from the photos that it had food held in its talons – a bird.
I went to the other side, to where they roost and nest, and spotted it. or perhaps it was the other one in the pair? It had the dead bird. It was on a close ledge, and I suspected it would fly off with it to a more remote ledge, so I was ready with my camera. I got a nice sequences when it took off.
I then spotted the other one of the pair.
I got a little closer to see if it would take off. It eventually did.
And some more photos –
I felt I had probably disturbed the birds too much by this time. So I left the area. On the way out – some more New Holland Honeyeater photos –
