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Post by eddy on Dec 8, 2009 21:15:11 GMT
not to good a pic but this was taken back in the summer,this sparrow hawk has just taken a black bird in the middle of an estate,i got close to the bird which i reckon was this years young hawk ;D  might have to copy image to com and enlarge to make out the sqawking black bird very much alive within his talons! |
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Post by wayner on Dec 8, 2009 21:38:11 GMT
Fantastic little birds Sparrowhawks, loads of bottle, zoom would have been nice but it's still a cracking pic mate.
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Post by cuckoo on Dec 8, 2009 21:39:13 GMT
Great pick ed , ill have a play around and see if i can zoom in  |
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Post by eddy on Dec 8, 2009 21:53:50 GMT
Great pick ed , ill have a play around and see if i can zoom in just save to desktop(vista)click on the pic and you should be able to zoom in but the quality goes down  |
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Post by Sunny on Dec 8, 2009 22:51:12 GMT
Great picture ...and what a spectacle to witness...incredible
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Post by solehunter on Dec 9, 2009 16:15:55 GMT
Looks like a pigeon  |
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Post by Coddo on Dec 9, 2009 18:26:04 GMT
Looks like a pigeon yeah.... i know some twitcher who have great bird identification books if u wanna borrow one... i think you should ;D seriously though, i watched a sparrowhawk take a fat wood pigeon from the top of my garden a few years back. feathers everywhere! cool birds |
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Post by maxwell on Dec 17, 2009 17:08:24 GMT
Looks like a pigeon They can be mistaken for pigeon from certain angles, especially front on, wings static. one swooped on my pigeon decoys at dusk years ago, and i shot it  . i beat myself up over that for weeks, i've never felt so ashamed in my life :dummy: |
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Post by greysfanboy on Dec 18, 2009 6:57:12 GMT
i've seen a sparrowhawk trying to nail a tit once chasing it through bushes etc, got it in the end |
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Post by snoopy54 on Jan 20, 2010 17:37:30 GMT
I saw one early in the morning walking down Belvedere St in Ryde that had just hammered a Ring Necked Dove,because it saw me coming it tried to take off with it but it was to heavy,it let go of the Dove which promptly took off,flew straight across the road and went head first into a wall on the other side(I think its gyro was knact)quite comical,the Sparrow Hawk didnt follow up with the assault tho.Ive also seen one on the old tram lines down Ryde Pier winkling out Squabs from underneath the pier,they are crafty beggars,beautifully marked as well,especially the males.Its always struck me as strange how its the males that are better looking in the Avian world and the girls in ours...................well,most of em anyway
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Post by eddy on Jan 20, 2010 18:08:15 GMT
.Its always struck me as strange how its the males that are better looking in the Avian world and the girls in ours...................well,most of em anyway you ought to get down the bars in southampton on a saturday night and see some of the girls in there  ,i did once...thought i'd walked into a bar from star wars  |
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Post by quest4some on Jan 20, 2010 21:21:50 GMT
sparrow hawks are a class bird but our top preditor round here is the Peregrin seen one of those fly in to a flock of Widgeon and take one out now they are fast and agile as well
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Post by maninblack on Jan 21, 2010 10:40:58 GMT
sparrowhawk must have thought he was a jay, as it was doing a bit of jaywalking across the road!
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