Two Falcons: Maungaraki, Lower Hutt

[George Hobson]

That's awesome Charlotte, falcons are amazing birds right?

[Charlotte]

That's awesome Charlotte, falcons are amazing birds right?

They are indeed George! We've been hoping he'll return, no joy so far.

[Charlotte]

Late post, but last Sat at 2.30pm some very angry falcon calls as a male tried to move a Hawk along. They were up high and the Hawk wasn't too worried by the grumpy falcon. On Thursday this week a falcon was near the train lines heading into Petone where a falcon was seen in a tree before bee lining up the bush towards towards Manuangarki, this was at about 4.20pm.

[Raptor]

Great stuff, the attack on the harrier would tend to indicate possible nesting.
At least your falcon haven't moved to town and scratched a jogger and attacked a dog!
Had a report in for 27 Sep of two seen in 'courtship' behavior over the hill in Takapu Valley, so it is all go in Wellington!
Thanks for posting

[Charlotte]

Happy to report early evening yesterday we heard and saw two Falcons (male and female) in a thermal over the bush behind our house. We’ve heard them intermittently over the past couple of weeks, but this was the first sighting for the new year.

[boneywhitefoot]

there are 3 breeding pairs that I know of between Belmont and Jubilee Park.

[Charlotte]

This might be one of them. We’ve seen them regularly over the time we’ve been living up here. Even a courtship display in our backyard a few years ago. Great to hear there are more breeding. We went for a scout the summer before last given some of the aggression we’d been seeing. But came away without having been attacked, guess we didn’t find the pozzie.

[boneywhitefoot]

it's very possible.

[Paul Sagar]

Spent 17-21 Jan visiting family at Maungaraki and saw at least one falcon each day, cruising across the valley over Dowse Drive. Great to see!

[Charlotte]

That makes sense Paul, we generally (if about) will see them regularly. Over the last week, we've seen Tui giving them a bit of a run for their money early evening, falcon was flying quite low and very easy to see.