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Post by owdboggy on Jul 20, 2007 9:48:43 GMT 1
This chap.female has been hunting the garden for a long time. Never managed to get a shot at it before. they do not settle for long. Even so, it is not a brilliant picture, but it was taken through double glazing, on a very dismal wet morning.  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Jul 20, 2007 10:42:03 GMT 1
You could almost reach out and touch it, nevertheless. I think its a good picture, and much closer than I would ever get in real life, to a Sparrow Hawk  |
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Post by emseypop on Jul 20, 2007 10:59:32 GMT 1
I've never seen one settle but seen them circling round here a few times, my Nan is a keen bird watcher, and feeds them all but she hates sparrow hawkes, I say live and let live. Oh your in the west midlands too, I wonder if its the same one?
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Post by The witch on Jul 20, 2007 11:18:31 GMT 1
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Post by madonplants on Jul 20, 2007 12:09:50 GMT 1
I still never forget that one I mentioned before, that was defoliating that live starling about 8 ft from the patio doors. I couldn't bare to get the camera out! Still it's mother nature isn't it. Why don't they kill them first?
Keith
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Post by owdboggy on Jul 20, 2007 13:22:57 GMT 1
This one has just taken a sparrow, from right in front of the window where I am sat at tge computer. Will not see it back here now for a week or so.
The adults kill instantly, but sometimes the juveniles are not as practised. We had one which had trouble killing a few weeks back. Cruelty occurs only when the perpetrator is aware of the pain the actions cause.
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Post by madonplants on Jul 20, 2007 13:41:51 GMT 1
This one has just taken a sparrow, from right in front of the window where I am sat at tge computer. Will not see it back here now for a week or so. The adults kill instantly, but sometimes the juveniles are not as practised. We had one which had trouble killing a few weeks back. Cruelty occurs only when the perpetrator is aware of the pain the actions cause. I was on my computer in the upstairs study and heard a squeaking for some time. I checked computer over to no avail, but it still carried on after minutes, so I went downstairs, to see the SH astride the bird basically de foliating it! This was no juvenile, sorry to disagree on that point!  Keith |
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Post by owdboggy on Jul 20, 2007 15:24:37 GMT 1
Unusual.  |
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Post by plocket on Jul 20, 2007 18:37:51 GMT 1
That's an amazing picture! We only ever see them flying about but more often we see buzzards.
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Post by madonplants on Jul 20, 2007 21:03:23 GMT 1
Unusual. TBH, I thought so too, but this wasn't a juvenile, maybe 2/3 years old at least! I think that is why it upset me so much, as I thought they killed them straight away! I used to see quite a few, when I was a kid! Keith |
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Post by 4pygmies on Jul 20, 2007 21:27:12 GMT 1
It IS an amazing picture OB. I love the birds of prey - we are seeing more and more here now.I'll never forget seeing a buzzard flying low in front of me as I drove through the woods one day last summer...it was wonderful. My mother has seen a Merlin sitting on the hedge by her kitchen window and my OH has seen it swooping through my bird hanger beach hut.
You must have very clean windows OB!
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Post by The witch on Aug 23, 2007 8:26:40 GMT 1
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Post by owdboggy on Sept 26, 2007 17:27:47 GMT 1
Same branch same pose? same bird? But this was just now.  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Sept 27, 2007 9:19:00 GMT 1
Somehow this one looks slightly smaller, perhaps its not the same bird? Still, its an amazing co-incidence if its not! Well done for getting two such great pics, OB!
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Post by owdboggy on Nov 19, 2007 18:32:54 GMT 1
A cruel beauty they have.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 24, 2008 20:35:50 GMT 1
My OH didn't believe me when I told him that I'd seen a sparrow hawk crash into next door's garage roof last year, then take off carrying a bird....
Then yesterday as he was in the back garden having a fag...he saw one take a bird from where it was sitting in the trees behind the house...all the little birds were going mad screeching like banshees they were.....OH was astonished. He isn't sure what it was as the sun was in his eyes.
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Post by Sleepy on Apr 24, 2008 20:38:30 GMT 1
My OH didn't believe me when I told him that I'd seen a sparrow hawk crash into next door's garage roof last year, then take off carrying a bird.... Then yesterday as he was in the back garden having a fag...he saw one take a bird from where it was sitting in the trees behind the house...all the little birds were going mad screeching like banshees they were.....OH was astonished. He isn't sure what it was as the sun was in his eyes. I had one take something from my lawn last summer |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 24, 2008 20:51:15 GMT 1
Do you know...I swear that last year we had a bigger bird of prey in the area...I saw one...you know the type...with TROUSERS on! we do have red kites in Leicestershire......  |
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