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[MpMom]

 

[baziunc]

SE16 may just find out what currawong tastes like before this is all over!  Poor baby.  They need a big currawong-swatter at the nest. 

[MpMom]

In the 5 yrs I have been watching I have never seen the currawongs attack like this. They were pesty but never attack like this. I watched as he drove 16 out of the nest. Sad!

[MpMom]

I really don't know Pera.
Great pics from the chatter & Lib & thanks for the video. Took a pic from it. She sure is a beauty.

[MpMom]

Report from Judy.
5 hrs ? Sydney, Australia ?

Sharing this from Judy Harrington from her visit into the reserve this afternoon.

Very interesting. Earlier I walked into the forest, looking for SE16 and other signs. I saw a pair of magpies and currawongs looking at something on the ground and thought it was a fox They were not really swooping, but looking and giving fairly quiet calls .To my surprise it was the young eaglet. It took off from the ground with no trouble and swooped off, fairly low. Currawongs chased it with purpose then. The female (I think) must have been nearby and seemed to be following it around. It is hard to follow in the thick forest, but SE16 seemed to be flying strongly and easily through the trees, followed by the currawongs. I saw them both flying back and forth several times. The male was down on the river, as reported by the rangers.
I found several damaged SE15 feathers on the ground and have bagged them.
I also found a perching post, close to nest 1.
Underneath I picked up several pellets, which we rarely find. Also eel/big fish remains, a blue-tongue skull and remains of a gull. the gull is still there. When I have gloves I shall look at the feathers for signs of problems.













 

[MpMom]

 

[baziunc]

Thanks for posting Judy's report, MpMom.  Very interesting.  Thanks for your s'caps.  Strange to see the currawong perching on the nest!  Pera, thanks for the video, s'caps and updates.

I was hoping Judy might say if she saw the currawong nest near Mum and Dad's nest, and if there were nestlings in it.  I can't imagine why the currawongs would continue their heightened level of near-incessant harassment unless they had an active nest very close to Mum and Dad's nest.  I only watched starting just before hatch last season and the currawongs were surely pesky last year, but golly gee lou-weez, their divebombing last year didn't come anywhere close to their level of aggression this year!

I hope that SE16's level of getting prey brought by Mum and Dad won't be affected by having been driven off the nest by the currawongs.  SE16 is such a beautiful juvie, and it would be too sad if the currawongs are able to do anything that hinders SE16 from having continued success with fledge and learning to hunt and getting enough to eat and staying healthy.

[MpMom]

Usually mum & dad would chase anyone away. The only thing I can think of is they want 16 do fight for her territory. I dunno

[baziunc]

Enjoyed the video, Pera.  Thanks!  Glad SE16 was okay after seemingly crashing into some branches when leaving the nest (in the 2nd video).     I wish SE16 would make some aggressive moves toward the currawongs - just to let them know they need to back off a bit.     (wonder why the video image and video sound are not in sync?)

[WWJW]

Oh, no!   I hope 15 pulls through.  Poor little baby.

Darn it!

[MpMom]

Pera, thanks so much for the report on our 15. I am so sad. I pray he makes it

[baziunc]

Thank you for the update on SE15.  It is sad news.  I hope we will get some follow-up reports, too.  I thought the man who helped take SE15 to rehab and then to Taronga and helped to feed SE15 in rehb was named the contact with Taronga, so it seems like he should be getting and sharing this kind of info, too.  I don't know which "chatter" shared the info from the email from Taronga.  I wonder if it was that person? 

I am thinking of SE15 and those who are caring and providing  for him/her.  Poor thing.  I hope for the best outcome possible.     Love you, SE15! 

[bggolden]

Any other reports on SE15?  Hope all is well with this sweet eagle.

[WWJW]

I've been checking their facebook page daily.  No updates since the original one.

I guess the only thing we can do is hope that "no news is good news."

[baziunc]

No news about sweet little SE15 but this was posted on chat at 11/16 3:58 PM nest time about SE 16. RR is the parents' river roost.
liberty1998 mum and dad were at RR this morning eating and catching fish. Angelinacat says they are at Burns Bay this afternoon. No sightings of SE16 since the 10th when she was seen at Haslams Creek / flats

Thanks, Pera.  I didn't know that SE16 had not been seen for so long!  I hope s/he's okay.  I would've expected to see SE16 still being in the area getting some more eagle lessons from Mum and Dad for a while longer.  Interesting your mention of Haslam's Creek/flats...  I knew someone with that last name, Haslam, who came to the U.S. from Australia.  He was a tennis pro who once trained at the same Aussie facility with the great Evonne Goolagong (now Evonne Goolagong Cawley), who I used to follow playing in the major tennis tournaments.  He was once the Tennis Pro at the tennis club where I played, and he coached me in tennis in my younger days.  He went on to coach a major University team, and of course he played a lot of tennis in regional tourneys himself.  Your mention of the name of that creek caught my eye, and sent me down Memory Lane.