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This morning on the train heading west from Melbourne, just west of Caroline Springs station as the train passed a very large, grassy area (these grasslands are disappearing out there, under housing and industrial developments), I saw a large bird just floating up there, no wing movement needed. I couldn't tell what it was.

Just before Bacchus Marsh I saw a much smaller raptor flying away from the line with something in its talons.

On the way back in the afternoon I was planning to watch the grassy area and - this is a bit hard to believe - standing on a fence post next to the train line was a pretty large raptor, possibly with something under its talons. Probably not an eagle but maybe a kite, harrier or goshawk.

Could it have been the bird I saw in the same area several hours earlier?