Wedge-tailed Eagle Dreaming beginnings (audiovisual)

#WedgieWednesday today ... hooray!
A little illustrated story from my early Wedge-tailed Eagle Dreaming days. This is about the first Wedge-tailed Eagle fledgling I saw with her parents on 23 February 2013.

I went out seeking her again on 25 February, and was on my way home, Stuart Highway, the full moon already risen and it was dusk when I found her. Didn't know in those days I wasn't allowed ta hop fences, so I did it not in very far, and hobbled toward her in agony, unbelieving, with my shoes full of prickles. My first close encounter with an Eagle youngster, so exhilarating.

In those days too, should have had "L" plates on my camera ... tee hee hee! Had just committed to shooting manual and didn't even know which direction I needed ta twiddle the knobs?#^*? Maybe could get away with it in daylight, not so in dusk!!

So I was twiddling away at camera knobs not really knowing what I was doing, shoes full of prickles, with my first Wedge-tailed Eagle youngster looking down at me .... then she launched and dropped out of the tree and flew in and close beside my camera and me!

Gobsmacked would not adequately describe the euphoric feeling, tee hee!

If I told you that story without photographic evidence, who would believe me? ... so I'm glad I kept shooting ta prove I wasn't hallucinating even though the photos are blurdy dream like ... a real realization of a magical experience ... tee hee hee!

Don't actually like the audio except for its title: "Realization" Eric Matyas (www.soundimage.org
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Any road, revamped this Wedgie Wednesday, today, 16 February 2022.

Had I my life ta live over, I'd go out warts n' all, bungles, learning experiences, the lot, and live it all over again. I'd still be out looking after the safety of Wedge-tailed Eagles around Alice Springs District roads, just saying it, hey 💖!

Taken on: February 15, 2022

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Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila Audax)

Stuart Highway

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