Wedge-tailed Eagle (7/24)

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae

Aquila audax  

Driving along an outback track we came across this Wedge-tailed Eagle nest with three "nestlings" at the top of the highest tree in the area.

The tree was only about 3 metres high which gave us almost eyeball-to-eyeball vision with these young birds.

"The trio's eyes were on me, unblinking bird eyes, the eyes of eagle fledglings, ruthless, demanding. Even in the closing stages, Julius Caesar faced a friendlier looking audience. Better looking too, I had no doubt."*

*From the Jack Irish novel, Dead Point, by Peter Temple (2000), Random House Bantom Books edition, p27.