For most of New Years Day 2022 in the Dayboro area it was incredibly wet (over 80mm fell in the morning) but at dusk the clouds cleared a little and I became aware of the shrill-call of an ‘Accipiter’ hawk from a nearby Hoop-Pine. My initial thought was that it was a Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) (from the higher-pitched repetitive sound), but when I started to photograph it thought that the tail-shape seemed incorrect and looked more like Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) Both are currently regular in the area, but BGOS far more obvious/abundant. I recorded hand-held video but the quality was very poor, so I extracted the audio, have uploaded a small section of the video and the entire audio. Apologies for the video-quality (I appreciate that it’s hard to watch) but would love your thoughts.
Note: The two images at the top of the post were taken locally (…and fairly recently) but are for content only and not the featured subject.


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