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Black Kite

Black Kite (Image ID 62629)
Photographed byMichael Hamel-Green on Tue 16th Apr, 2024 and uploaded on Fri 19th Apr, 2024 .
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ID62629
CommentThe first bird to welcome me coming in to Werribee along Paradise Rd was a kite perched on a dead pine. It was basking in the glow of the dawn sun rising above the horizon. As I was taking this photo, it was emitting a low whistle, so at first I thought it might be a Whistling Kite. Wrong. It was a Black Kite. As Hanzab notes, Black Kites are also whistlers: “[they have] a hoarse and querulous whistle…closely resembling characteristic whistling call of Whistling Kite, though of a more tremulous quality, not descending so vigorously and staccato notes not ascending so vigorously” (https://hanzab.birdlife.org.au/species/black-kite/). Certainly not my first sighting of a Black Kite, so common at Werribee, but my first vision of one breathtakingly bathed in gold and purring its pleasure at the start of a new day. And the pleasure was mine too.
EquipmentNikon Z8 Nikkor 500mm PF f5.6 TC1.4
700mm
ISO 4000
1/320th f11
LocationParadise Road, Western Treatment Plant,, Werribee, Victoria
Keywordsadult
This image was selected as a Moderator’s Pick. Reason: Nice golden hour portrait
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