Today’s bloganuary prompt: What does it mean to live boldly?
Here is some small birds living boldly. What do you think?
The Wedge-tailed Eagle is the largest Eagle in Australia and the third largest in the world, with a wing span of just under 210cm or seven feet.
Smaller birds aren’t impressed when a Wedge-tailed Eagle invade their space and will swoop and dive.
Even if the Wedge-tailed Eagle has found it’s lunch, there’s no peaceful place to eat.
In Australia Pied Magpies are well know for their territorial swooping of anything from small dogs, people and even Wedge-tailed Eagles
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I’ve seen bald eagles driven off by smaller birds and I like it when little birds swoop down on people and drive them away from their territory.
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Magpies here are ferocious Search magpie swoop Australia. Some videos are quite funny but not for the recipient though
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Yes, there are some creatures it’s best not to tangle with.
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Fabulous shots
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Thank you Sheree 🙂 🙂
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😎
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He’s awesome! I love seeing this phenomenon in spring when the eagles and hawks converge on the Refuge to what they might think are easy meals. The TINY (in comparison) red-winged blackbird tolerates NOTHING from these immense raptors.
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The bravery is wonderful to see.
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That tail is very distinctive. Here too some small birds will swoop (usually in small groups) on birds of prey
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Always know when a Wedge-tailed Eagle is soaring the skies. Little birds are so brave 🙂
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Sounds like the little birds are brave, or foolhardy
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Brave as they probably know that the eagle won’t spend energy on them.
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OK
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Wow! I never heard of this eagle!
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You have now 🙂 Thanks for reading Robert
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they even swoop people??? that is bold!
and your photos are beautiful BB – the soaring and blue skies were uplifting
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No Wedge-tailed Eagles don’t swoop people, Magpies do though with ferocity in breeding season
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got it – that was what I thought – did I say eagles ?
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oh! it’s carrying something. How did you get those shots and so clear. Amazing. can’t stop looking at all the feathers.
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The eagle is carrying a Eastern Water Dragon. My presence made it fly away carrying its lunch. It’s then that the other birds went for it.
1 To get it away from their territory and
2 To hopefully make it drop its lunch so they could get it.
Their feathers are just fabulous. I keep looking at patterns, shades and shapes too 🙂 🙂
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so you were just watching all of this? didn’t they see you?
the whole open wingspan and you can see all the feathers, just flawless.
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I was driving home in the afternoon and I saw the eagles just off the road. I stopped a way off but when I opened the car door they took flight, one with the Water Dragon. I watched for around a minute until they were out of sight.
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you took those perfect shots in span of 1 minute! 👏👏👏👏
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There were a lot more crap ones 😂
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oh… 😆
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fabulous bird photography, never easy when they are high above!
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Thanks Becky…..and on telephoto trying to hold steady
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Exactly!! I was struggling on Tuesday with ravens, crag martins and raptors – thank goodness for digital cameras.
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I know…..fifty photos to get a couple of decent ones 📸😃
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Yeah that’s true
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