Drama at the Collins St Falcon nest today. Dad Falcon dragged up a New Holland Honeyeater (not common in the city) but not what momma Falcon feels like while she sits on her newly hatched babies so he took it away
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The 2 Collins St Falcon hatchlings are already enthusiastic eaters, hopefully the remaining egg will hatch soon
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A Collins St Falcon parent ponders a threat to their domination of the skies above the yarra as they sit on their chicks
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The alternate rounds of screaming and bellyflopping from the Collins St Falcon chicks is a mood
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Collins Street parent falcon grapples with how a big powerful bird of the sky like them ended up responsible for fluff balls
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Collins St Falcon babies demonstrate classic city worker trying to focus in the afternoon after eating too much at lunch mood.
Just walked past their building and was delighted to discover its cyclist end of trip facilities are now called “the nest”
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I aspire to be stand on one foot on the edge of a skyscraper ledge in a windstorm level of unbothered
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Lots of fabulous facts about the falcons of Collins St
https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/news/egg-citing-news-baby-falcons-make-peck-tacular-debut
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Today I learned falcon parents drag their misbehaving kids by the back of the neck much like cats do
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Looks like wearing your lunch leftovers is the latest falcon fashion
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Collins St Falcon parent has clearly had enough of toddler shenanigans
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The Collins St falcon chicks are going through their awkward tiny fluffy dinosaur faze
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When you realise it isn’t actually Friday yet
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Not much happening with the Peregrine babies but the parents are seeming comfortable to leave the ledge more
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Don’t envy the Collins st falcons being on their little ledge in today’s Melbourne weather. Parent bird is looking rather damp
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Surely bending like that is not comfortable
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The Collins St Falcon chicks are experimenting with the concept of flapping their wings but haven’t quite got the hang of it yet
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Always amused by how little the Collins St Peregrine Falcon chicks respect each others personal space
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The Collins St falcons babies are going through their fabulous looking like little old ladies in fur coats stage
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One day these will be the world’s fastest creatures. Today is not that day
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Enthusiastic but very awkward flapping practice continues at the Collins St Falcon ledge
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Current “best” attempt at photographing the Collins St Falcons from ground level. Those birdies are a long way up!
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Meanwhile at the Collins Street Falcon nest the youngsters are flapping so hard they fall over
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The Collins St Falcon youngsters have graduated from fluffy blobs to adult wannabes who look like they had a terrible accident involving a feather doona
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That still not quite the end of the week yet feeling
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The Collins Street murder floofs have progressed to brief bouts of something resembling flying. They grow up so fast!
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Turns out the Collins St falcon kids can be a little scared of heights. Hopefully no one was in the laneway below.
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The Collins St murder chickens ponder life beyond the ledge
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Joanna Holman
Bernard Sheppard