Pacific Bazza from my office window

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I've been flat out this past week but have enjoyed watching the antics of a pair of Pacific Bazza or Crested Hawks, that have been using the lilly pillies and other trees in front of my office window as an hideout to ambush other birds. It's 2.30pm on Friday as I write this and they are back again now. I really like this species - seeing three of them hunting through the stand of eucalypts on the property of the house at North Casino we were considering buying was almost enough for me to say yes to purchasing it. I've seen bazzas at our place at Larnook a couple of times but we just don't have enough canopy for them to hang around. I'd occasionally see a couple from the lunch room window in my building at Newcastle Uni as well. Not only do they look interesting with their little crest or comb on their heads, but they behave in a somewhat un-hawk like way as well. They seem to cooperate when they hunt.