Had one of these in the garden this morning...
06 November 2007, 06:51 PM
#31
Guest
Posts: n/a
Interesting. I think this has reached the "Phone a Friend" section!!
Here is another Google one that looks more like the one in your piccie?
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...MG_1252-01.jpg
Perhaps it's all down to age and sex - it usually is
dl
Here is another Google one that looks more like the one in your piccie?
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...MG_1252-01.jpg
Perhaps it's all down to age and sex - it usually is
dl
Agree on the age/sex thing also not helped by so many sites giving a different description.Pretty sure it was a female though as in my opinion it was much bigger than a Kestral and also because some sites say the female is brown down its back yet others say the male is brown
Last edited by Bravo2zero_sps; 06 November 2007 at 06:53 PM.
06 November 2007, 06:58 PM
#32
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Weston Super Mare, Somerset.
Posts: 14,102
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Sorry - don't know why link didn't work??? Fine here.
Try Google Images and "sparrowhawks". Piccy is on page 1 line 3 on right.
Unless he's flown off
Try Google Images and "sparrowhawks". Piccy is on page 1 line 3 on right.
Unless he's flown off
06 November 2007, 08:11 PM
#33
Guest
Posts: n/a
Ah this one:
[img]
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/gallery/files/6/3/2/3/IMG_1252-01.jpg[/img]
Yep brown in colour but then this is a Sparrowhawk too and looks completely different:
[img]
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/gallery/files/6/3/2/3/IMG_1252-01.jpg[/img]Yep brown in colour but then this is a Sparrowhawk too and looks completely different:
Last edited by Bravo2zero_sps; 06 November 2007 at 08:16 PM.
07 November 2007, 08:54 AM
#34
Scooby Regular
Our cat used to have regular showdowns with one in the back garden of our last house
I think they must have eventually come to an agreement though, because she stuck to clearing the place of squirrels and rodents, and left the hawk to decimate the avian population
I think they must have eventually come to an agreement though, because she stuck to clearing the place of squirrels and rodents, and left the hawk to decimate the avian population
07 November 2007, 11:00 AM
#35
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 39,877
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
We get a good few buzzards around here. They often sit on the tops of telegraph poles but if they land on the ground they often get mobbed by crows.
Thay are very attractive looking birds.
Les
Thay are very attractive looking birds.
Les
08 November 2007, 08:33 AM
#36
Scooby Regular
Quickest way to tell a sparrowhawk from a kestrel at a distance is that sparrowhawks swoop after their prey and kestrels hover then divebomb.
If you feed songbirds in your garden chances are sooner or later you will have a sparrowhawk for a visitor
Re crows or rooks mobbing birds of prey, that's pretty common and funny to watch. There was a buzzard circling our house a few months ago being mercilessly divebombed by crows and i've seen it a number of times now. it's surprising how aggressive the corvids get with buzzards and red kites.
If you feed songbirds in your garden chances are sooner or later you will have a sparrowhawk for a visitor
Re crows or rooks mobbing birds of prey, that's pretty common and funny to watch. There was a buzzard circling our house a few months ago being mercilessly divebombed by crows and i've seen it a number of times now. it's surprising how aggressive the corvids get with buzzards and red kites.
08 November 2007, 08:55 AM
#37
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Weston Super Mare, Somerset.
Posts: 14,102
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I think it's Kestrels that you see hovering above motorway embankments?
Re mobbing we had a Heron take off from our garden and he was mobbed by a dozen or so screeching seagulls. Hadn't seen that before although the Heron didn't seem unduly concerned dl
Re mobbing we had a Heron take off from our garden and he was mobbed by a dozen or so screeching seagulls. Hadn't seen that before although the Heron didn't seem unduly concerned
dl
08 November 2007, 02:03 PM
#38
Scooby Regular
got many a tawney owl! ******* things are soo noisey! no way you can sleep! always buzzards flyin and screaching high above and yes we have a sparrow halk too! as cool as he is it gets a bit much when he kills every pigeon and what ever else that comes to visit our paddocks! he leaves their feathers in a pile all over the floor! there a force to be reckoned with and amaizing to watch
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post