26 Mar 2016 Werribee water treatment plant

Today was the day for Whistling Kites. I have made many trips to the "poo farm" and it seems that on any given day one species is very common. The next time its another bird. We must have seen dozens of whistlers today.

But there plenty of other bird out today. Werribee is wonderful for raptors and we saw a black shouldered kite.

We were busy trying to snap a goldfinch when a collared sparrowhawk did just that, literally. She flew from the adjacent tree, picked up a finch, returned to her tree and dismantled her prey feather by feather. And the other finches stayed up, chattering. I would be a long way from there!

But its not all about the big raptors. One of the cutest birds of the day was this glorious golden headed cisticola, taken by the bird hide on the bay