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Postby ParrotsForLife » Sat Feb 04, 2017 11:17 am

I seen a Falcon in my cousins garden next door eating what looked to be a Starling, This is my first time to see a Bird of Prey out in the wild and ill have to be extra careful now that I know there are some actually around my area.I feel terrible for my Uncle though he will have to clean the horrible mess :O
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Re: Birds of Prey

Postby Pajarita » Sat Feb 04, 2017 12:46 pm

Yuck! Yes, I feel for your uncle, also!
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Re: Birds of Prey

Postby ParrotsForLife » Sat Feb 04, 2017 5:53 pm

Pajarita wrote:Yuck! Yes, I feel for your uncle, also!

Someone told me it was a Sparrow hawk and that they have seen them a few times here in Ireland and I remember last summer I had Rocko on the swing in the garden and I thought I seen a baby Hawk injured but maybe it was a Sparrow hawk just swooping down to catch its prey but the reason I thought it was injured is because there was a large circle of crows in the sky.
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Re: Birds of Prey

Postby Loriusgarrulus » Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:55 am

Crows often mob birds of prey to try to drive them away. A very risky strategy with a sparrowhawk that will kill in the air.
We often see crows round here mobbing buzzards.
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Re: Birds of Prey

Postby alienlady » Mon Feb 06, 2017 8:23 am

We do have Sparrowhawks in UK , so please be very careful of having your birds outside.
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Re: Birds of Prey

Postby Loriusgarrulus » Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:03 pm

Where we have our woodland in Wales there are buzzards and red tailed kites above the sheep fields and sparrowhawks in the wood..
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Re: Birds of Prey

Postby ParrotsForLife » Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:29 pm

We got great pictures on the camera and I recorded it too
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Re: Birds of Prey

Postby liz » Tue Feb 07, 2017 7:27 am

We and others in our neighborhood have lost kittens and small cats. I believe they have been taken by the hawks that circle overhead. I also lost my Squeekie who was 20 pounds and too big for a hawk. Then my son saw a hawk fly by him with a bald eagle chasing it. I had still been searching for her but the sighting of a bald eagle in my yard tells me that Squeekie is no more.
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