EagleWood Park The Home of Creighton's Creek WedgeTails
Alexandra and Paul Handley eaglewood@tpg.com.au |
Eagles Soar Over EagleWood Park
The paddock known as 100 Acre Wood has views for 150 kilometers at EagleWood Park. This property's high altitude and permanent creeks provide pasture and water for both stock and wildlife throughout the searing summer months of December to March. Calving commences early March of the owner bred pure Angus blood lines derived from Jumbuck Park and Merrigrange genetics. Two large lucerne paddocks provide protein supplement and a diet change for stock fed on clover filled Australian native grass pastures.
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Wedge tailed eagles are protected at EagleWood Park
These stunning birds share their environment with beef cattle and native flora and fauna. Adults are spotted daily, mostly spiralling in thermals over their nest.
Bird lovers of all nationalities email their questions to EagleWood Park. So for Sara of Kuala Lumpur who asks Do eagles have toes? The answer is..yes! All birds of prey use their feet for killing, from the tiniest owl to the largest wedge tailed eagle. Sharp claws are not the reason eagle feet are called talons. Bats have sharp claws too, but they don't have talons. What makes talons different is that they are designed to carry things. An eagle foot is made up of four muscular toes, powerful enough to hang onto a fairly large rabbit or hare as the eagle carries it through the air.
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EagleWood Park shelter belts assist stock weight gain
Beef only Angus graze knee deep in lush pasture under shelter belts with spring fed dams and permanent creeks. A number of 100 year old Oak trees around the main homestead are testimony to this property being drought proof. Part of the lucerne crop is seen on the left slope.
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Calves quickly gain weight on native grasses
The EagleWood Park brand of Angus has been selectively bred from pedigree Merridale and Merrigrange bulls for size and Jumbuck Park genetics for hardiness and easy doing ability. Able to withstand cold winter frosts, these calves by summer have lost their winter coats and graze on new pastures encouraged by summer rain.
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A few months older and ready for breeders to stock up
Weight gain is rapid and proves the success of EagleWood Park animal managegment including regular application of pharmaceuticals to prevent pink eye and endo parasites.These meaty docile weaners are milk fed for 9 months and would prefer to ride the quad bikes than walk if they could!
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| EagleWood Park located at 1500 ft in the Strathbogie Ranges is the home of Australia's largest birds of prey, the magnificent Wedge Tailed eagles. Not far from Euroa and with two roads on its boundaries and straddling two shires, EagleWood Park can be seen from Google Earth. This beef producing property has stunning NE views to the Murray river bordering Victoria and New South Wales as well as over the Nagambie Lakes area and beyond Shepparton. From EagleWood Park's southern paddocks, in particular the Airstrip Paddock, spectacular views of the snow on Mt Buller's peak can be seen in winter.
EagleWood Park owned by the Handleys, provides an excellent lookout for the eagles as well as abundant food, water and shelter for kangaroos, rock wallabies, wombats, and the ever present black and white crested cockatoos and numerous other species of Australian parrots. The legendary Stathbogie Black Aberdeen Angus cattle roam this property surrounded by electric fences and graze its lush pastures under shelter belts of 100 year old eucalyptus varieties. |
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Department of Environment and Sustainability Click here for information on preserving land for Australian wildlife and native flora.
Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority Victorian community environment awards are listed on this web site.
New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service Click to find out what wedge tailed eagles eat and how high they soar.
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