Orange Youngster Wedge-tailed Eagle flight to independence movie clip

            I am sad about the quality of this slow motion clip, but I think it is an interesting story anyway.
 
On 26 June 2015, six days after her parents' copulation beside the road to Alice Springs Airport, I witnessed The Orange Youngster being chased off by her father across the Stuart Highway near the Alice Springs south welcome sign.  It was a very torrid chase off, and then her father returning alone.

I found The Orange Youngster still tetchy from the chase off in a dead tree diagonally across the paddock from the welcome sign and beside the disused Old Ghan Train Heritage Level Crossing (that is no longer there) Stuart Highway.

A Qantas passenger jet low flying overhead in its final approach into Alice Springs Airport was the last straw. (If you have ever been under a landing jet plane you would know how noisy and frightening it is to an Eagle)

She crouched down and launched herself into her independence.

Quite amazing really to be there and to get this footage of The Orange Youngster's flight to independence.  Such a magical moment in time.  

I said as I always say when a Wedgie is leaving  ...  thank you!  thank you!  thank you!

Taken on: November 26, 2020

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