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“Red-tails in suburbia” (#2 in series)

 

 

As you can see, the head of the male of this subspecies is – beak excepted – a study in “basic black”.

And, as you will see in following posts, even if the flash of an individual’s tail – or part of his/her chest – is all you can see, it is very easy to identify an adult red-tail’s gender.

This post’s hero was feasting on/“trashing” a so-called Cape Lilac in a West Leederville lane at 12.08 pm on 10 May 2023.

One of the world’s rarer birds was less than 100 metres away from a busy street, circa 100 metres from our front door, and less than 200 metres from the Perth-Fremantle railway line.

A straight-line flight to Perth Railway Station would be a deal shorter than 3 kilometres; red-tails have no reason to go there, but they do now venture into the CBD, when and wherever its trees offer food.

 

Published in Cockatoos nature and travel photographs Western Australia