A Peregrine Falcon chasing a mountain bike rider.
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Sparrow, i wouldn't hang around here with that Falcon lurking about, she'll have ya
They are stunning birds to look at, they are like missiles on the move. We get a female sparrowhawk in our garden, i know when she's about as the blackbirds go mental, hardly suprising as she keeps nicking them.
They are stunning birds to look at, they are like missiles on the move. We get a female sparrowhawk in our garden, i know when she's about as the blackbirds go mental, hardly suprising as she keeps nicking them.
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Awesome The bit at 2:22 is my favourite part.
On the farm I always see some type of bird of prey out and about. I don't know anything about birds other than the basic's and I'd be interested to know which one I'm seeing. I am assuming it's "a hawk?"
On the farm I always see some type of bird of prey out and about. I don't know anything about birds other than the basic's and I'd be interested to know which one I'm seeing. I am assuming it's "a hawk?"
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Join the club, i'm no expert either. I only know the stuff that comes in our garden, Sparrowhawks seem to pop up in peoples gardens quite a lot so maybe its one of them, with living on a farm though it could be anything as you have all the wildlife on your doorstep. It could even be a vulture thats got lost
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Awesome watch that.
We get a lot of red kites in these parts, we went out in the crossers across the hill a couple of weeks ago, stopped for a water/*** break and there was one literally about 15ft away flying above us, he/she looked pretty damn menacing at that close range!
As with others have posted, I have limited knowledge on birds, should get some books and learn them really, apparently talking to some old farmer friends there are certain parts where you could be lucky enough to see a golden eagle, however they (as I can understand) wont tell me exactly where ;-)
We get a lot of red kites in these parts, we went out in the crossers across the hill a couple of weeks ago, stopped for a water/*** break and there was one literally about 15ft away flying above us, he/she looked pretty damn menacing at that close range!
As with others have posted, I have limited knowledge on birds, should get some books and learn them really, apparently talking to some old farmer friends there are certain parts where you could be lucky enough to see a golden eagle, however they (as I can understand) wont tell me exactly where ;-)
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I wish I knew more about the various types of bird of prey, there are a few brown eagle type birds I see regularly, closet thing I can find that looks like them is the short toed eagle or the lesser spotted eagle, I quite often look into their eyes they are so close which is amazing, as I'm close to Cres in Croatia I occasionally see what I think is the odd bustard, god knows how high they get but they are huge, there are loads of large birds that migrate this way so could be anything, apparently it's an up and coming twitchers location.
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For those who mentioned they wish they knew what was on their farm the most common raptor in the Buzzard. They will soar high and slow and feed mainly on carrion but will also hunt rabbits and small mammals especially this time of the year for feeding their young.
For those seen in gardens it will 99% be a Sparrow Hawk which are there hunting your garden birds.
Here is one in my garden recently, he let me get to within 6' of him:
The Peregrine in the film if i'm not mistaken is trained by the bloke who goes on Springwatch a lot with many various trained birds from raptors to corvids and who provides trained birds to the film industry - his name escapes me at this moment.
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