Brown Goshawk
Last week Jade my Border Collie/rabbit hunter left a dead rabbit on the back lawn. There is a pair of Brown Goshawk’s living in the Tee Tree belt and I believe have a nest in one of the taller Tee Trees, I haven’t seen them in it, so maybe the one I am looking at is an old nest.
Both birds cruise around the paddocks and up and down the river causing all sorts of commotion with the water hens, ducks and plovers. You always know when they are on the prowl by the commotion.
This day the female came in to feed on the dead rabbit, it was a spectacular sight about 5 meters from my kitchen window. She fed on the rabbit for about 5 minutes, ripping at the flesh.
I watched this pair a few months ago, the female had a kill and the male was harassing her for the catch. Each time he came near she would put her wings out over her meal until he gave up and left her in peace.