What are these?

[owen101]

i just saw either a kestrel or hawk huge it was had a sort of indented v into its tail feathers

[nogin]

i just saw either a kestrel or hawk huge it was had a sort of indented v into its tail feathers

 

red kite m8

[owen101]

it was huge was going to get some video footage but was gone seen around 8 or 9 hawks/kestrels/red kites today alone

have to keep a eye on my birds that are out

[Guest bakes]

owen kestrols,red kites wont do no damage to your birds goshawks,sparrowhawks,pergrines are the ones you have to keep an eye on mate

 

all the best

[owen101]

they are all the same aint they but noticed that a few of the hawks and red kites have tassles on there legs does this mean someone owns them

[nogin]

it was huge was going to get some video footage but was gone seen around 8 or 9 hawks/kestrels/red kites today alone

have to keep a eye on my birds that are out

 

sound's like lanarkshire..bandit country  :-/

[owen101]

 

sound's like lanarkshire..bandit country  :-/

 

in grantham but there are a few nesting sites i believe and also i believe a few people breed and release aswell not certain though

 

 

[Guest bakes]

they are all the same aint they but noticed that a few of the hawks and red kites have tassles on there legs does this mean someone owns them

 

if they got leather staps on them could be someone flying them locally as falconers birds have these straps on a way to control the birds kestrols wouldnt be able to kill an pigeon mate and red kites are scavengers worst preditor for pigeon flyers are pergrines,goshawks ,hen sparrowhawk

 

all the best

[owen101]

 

if they got leather staps on them could be someone flying them locally as falconers birds have these straps on a way to control the birds kestrols wouldnt be able to kill an pigeon mate and red kites are scavengers worst preditor for pigeon flyers are pergrines,goshawks ,hen sparrowhawk

 

all the best

 

learn somin new everyday still pretty scary seeing it all though isnt it

with ybs out and seeing these huge shadows then looking up and seeing it

 

[Guest bakes]

was any of the ones you seen flying any of these

 

 

 

 

 

all the best

[owen101]

saw 1 like the top at around 9:30 this morning and 2 like the middle flying above eachother around 12:00 and then a red kite about 20 mins ago

 

believe the ones i saw were goshawks and peregrines init not sure?

[Guest bakes]

first pic hen sparrow hawk second pic goshawk 3rd pic pergrine mate.

[owen101]

oo well dont know much lol still learning

[Guest Denny]

 

red kite m8

 

 

Copy that m8 they are making a come back from near extinction - I've seen loads when I've driven down the M5 and saw some on the outskirts of Salisbury this winter.  One was sighted only a week ago flying over fields near the A447 on the Leicester/Derby edges - you ought to have seen the twitchers out with their zoom lenses!

 

 

http://www.redkites.co.uk/ for photos

 

 

 

[Guest Denny]

 

 

These little beauties nest every year almost at the end of my garden, a disused quarry which is now used as a national dive centre! Their nesting place less than 800m away!  Over the last three years their numbers have been increasing and I've already lost four birds to them in my first year - I only started to let my YBs out until mid summer.

 

I'm aready dreading this spring/summer's losses!

 

 

 

 

[bruno1]

This was split from 'Bid to protect pigeons from hawks ends in fiasco' thread, off-topic, but deserving of a thread of its own.

[rasbull]

I have a pair of red kites which fly directly above my garden most days, sometimes really low. Beautiful birds to look at in the air. I live at the foot of the Brecon Beacons, and Pen Y Fan is clearly visable from my garden. However, despite where I live, have only ever had 1 weeks worth of problems with a sparrowhawk. Guess I should keep my fingers crossed it stays that way! ;-)

[billt]

This is the red kite harmless to our birds

[wilkins]

i let my birds go in training just off the A40 beconsfield i have seen 8 red kite's in the area above me when letting the birds go but i have never had a bad toss from that spot,they seem to appear after i release the birds but just glide at first i was thinking im in for a bad toss now i dont worry , if you move more into windsor the royal park can be very dodgy to toss from lovely spot to train from but have given up on it due to the sparrow hawks in the park.

[clayton moore]

Get peice of tough transparent sheet of plastic buy pigeon sticker from Boddy and rywoods Put pigeon transfer on plastic so the bird looks to be perched on fence.Hawk will hit it hey presto.Hawk funeral required.

[pjc]

i find using an upturned fishtank on the loft roof is good!

Put your birds underneath, very good for settleing them and allowing a good look around.

[peterpau]

If you drive down the M40 from Banbury past Stockenchurh and through the cutting and go to Slough Maidenhead or High Wycombe area. You'll see stacks o' red kites. I counted 45 the other week. People feed 'em round Stockenchurch  :-/

[dwh]

 

These little beauties nest every year almost at the end of my garden, a disused quarry which is now used as a national dive centre! Their nesting place less than 800m away!  Over the last three years their numbers have been increasing and I've already lost four birds to them in my first year - I only started to let my YBs out until mid summer.

 

I'm aready dreading this spring/summer's losses!

 

 

FEEL SORRY 4 U M8

 

 

[Roland]

If you drive down the M40 from Banbury past Stockenchurh and through the cutting and go to Slough Maidenhead or High Wycombe area. You'll see stacks o' red kites. I counted 45 the other week. People feed 'em round Stockenchurch  :-/

 

Yep, a great drive, and harmless birds to our pigeons.

Carrion feeders. Be too slow to suprise, let alone catch a pigeon.

[Guest]

saw 1 like the top at around 9:30 this morning and 2 like the middle flying above eachother around 12:00 and then a red kite about 20 mins ago

 

believe the ones i saw were goshawks and peregrines init not sure?

 

Hi owen the 2 you seen above eachother will of been buzzards soaring