Meal delivery

Dad brings in the morning meal...Mum eagley ...er...eagerly pounces on it and shrouds it with her wings for a couple of minutes - making sure that is properly dead and going nowhere...

Bunny fluff

I may have a fluffy tail - but am no bunny...

Table manners

Young Chick, if you want to be a raptor you have to attack your food...like this...now you try...

Milestone

2012-10-16 Mum encourages Chick to peck at the carcass as they feed together.

2012-10-17 Milestone. Mum carries breakfast into the nest, wakes Chick, then moves out to a branch, leaving Chick to feed itself.

Breakfast

We've had wet weather for a whole week, so Chick has been bunkered down out of site. But 2 days ago the weather cleared enough for breakfast in the open. Chick is feeding well.

 

Below is a short video clip (3.7 MB)

First Sight

We're very excited! First sight of chick this morning, being fed breakfast by mother. Looks healthy. About 3 weeks old, we guess. We had a friendly visit from Shane & Mia on Saturday, doing their inspection rounds. As Shane noted, mother does not put food in chick's beak; she holds it in front of chick and chick has to pick and pull it from her. Training begins early! Here's our first pic of chick (poor quality phone-pic of camera-LCD of video-frame through telescope - but worth showing nonetheless). Expect more activity and blog updates soon!