tiabunna's photos with the keyword: Whistling Kite

This is a Whistling Kite, a species of raptor to be found across Australia. This one kindly flew by several times, allowing me to get these images, which show their distinctive wing markings.

Australian Magpies normally are peaceful birds, but they become very territorial and protective during nesting season - sometimes (though certainly not always) with people, but always when a raptor such as this Whistling Kite comes too close to the nest. This Kite was being given a very hard time and beat a retreat, after even going inverted to see its attacker (see also PiPs).