General Chat

I very nearly had a sparrowhawk crash into the back of my head last summer.
I was in the gap behind my greenhouse when I heard a screech and a blackbird shot over head into the neighbours garden..........hot on its heels was a young Sparrowhawk........it missed me by inches.

A year or so before that a youngster knocked itself out crashing into our living room window..........OH picked it up and put it on the window sill..........it flew off a moment or so later.

They are beautiful birds.

Amanda

Ian....We could not get much further apart in the same country could we... :O)

Will remember to bring the binoculars when l get to your neck of the woods there seems to be so much to see.
Sorry did not get back sooner just popped to a friends for a few minutes at 2.00 got back home at midnight.. wasnt drinking officer honest.


Jan in Kent

My Dads garden gets a female sparrowhawk a lot mau, boy do the little birds scarper when she appears!!


Hope you are well,


Caz xxxxxx

Will be fun to watch Maz :O)

Whitley Bay, eh! Well, theres at two of us from up North then!

Most people think Manchester and Leeds are North.

:-)

Ian

..........shouts from Whitley Bay >>>>>>>>sounds

fabulous Ian :O) x

North Northumberland - about 10 miles from the border with jockland.

Ian

Where is here Ian?

Jan in Kent

Get allsorts here.

Waxwings, redstarts, a buzzard quite frequently, every autumn a pair of Ospreys hang around for a few day. See goshawks, merlins, harriers, kestrels. Barn owls, brown owls, little owls, short eared and long eared owls within a couple of hundred yards of where I am sitting now.

In the spring I hear nightjars on the moor and corncrakes on the haugh. The blackcock are lecking now and tomorrow I am going to try to get some photos of them - have a hide built and ready.

Deer, foxes and badgers, red squirrels and voles all visit the garden regularly.

Ian

A few weeks back we had a sparrowhawk in our garden. He was there for hour and half, tucking in and resting then tucking in again. He eventually flew off with what was left of the rest of his meal. The garden was quiet for the rest of the day back to normal now though.

Apart from the sparrowhawk the most unusual bird we have had in the garden is a green woodpecker.

Whats the most unusual bird anyone has seen in their garden?


Jan in Kent

lol

Yeah, there were hundreds of kids flying them....:-)

But seriously folks - the last count at Rowlands Gill put the numbers in that area at over a hundred. God only knows what they are eating!

Ian

Seeing Ann in Glos' post about Red Kites in Tring, which is not far from us.......I remember some years ago the farmer close to us saying that they had released Red Kites into the Chiltern area........and I remember being up at the farmyard and someone calling out that they had spotted a Red Kite, but I was too late to see it........we mainly get magpies and pigeons - the size of ducks - around here......

......oh, and lots of robins too.....

Morning Ian.......Rowlands Gill not far from here...would that be at the Kite festival then? ;O)

In Rowlands Gill, last month, I counted 27 red kites in view at one stage.

Some of them had more electronics hanging off them than the space shuttle.

Ian

Aww thanks Diana and Liz and good morning to you on this beautiful day :O) xx

So glad fruity is safe and well

xx

Mau, so glad Fruity and his pal are ok.

Lizx

We do have lots of songbirds around here Viv.. certainly lots of early wake up calls :O)

If you have a sparrowhawk around it means that you have a large and healthy song bird community.

Red Kites are a sight to behold .... they can often be seen sitting atop of fence posts and telegraph poles beside country roads in West Wales.

Viv

Send Blue BC..........I have my own Greats thank you very much..lol :O) xx

I know Kaz, Hawks are a sight to see but mixed feelings when little birds are being killed xx