Eagle Hill
Max Southwell was a fund of informaton on the Spring Range area. His property used to cover a large portion of it, and he was the man who told us the place used to be called "Eagle Hill". Max is gone now, but the wedge tailed eagles he referred to are still with us.
In earlier times the wedge-tailed eagle was considered to be vermin because of its reputation as a killer of lambs and sheep. People were encouraged to kill them and at one stage 30,000 wedge-tailed eagles were estimated to have been destroyed in a year. The wedge-tailed eagle is protected by the National Parks and Wildlife Act. It is illegal to kill trap or poison them.
Raptors and other birds are at risk from the blades of wind turbines and eagle fatalities have been recorded at Starfish Hill wind plant and elsewhere.
These photos record eagle activity on the Range.
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