If you’ve been following along a blog or two just recently you’ll know we have a young pair of Black-shouldered Kites that have mated up.
It’s been interesting to watch as they move from being young independent teenagers to a pair. Not yet ready for breeding, but none-the-less a couple.
They have several roosting locations and we found them on one the other morning. They had been cleaning and the usual chirping going on between them. They were both scanning the blanket weed and grasses below the tree carefully. The male made a half-hearted dash out over the field, but returned empty.
The female took an intense interest in the patch just in front of me, and then wings out she rose from the perch and dropped straight down into the grass to mantle over a catch, then turn and fly back to her perch, mouse breakfast attached.
Enjoy
Here’s how the action occurred.
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