Goshawks In Lanarkshire

[Guest stb-]

Gos worse than percy he can chase and catch a passing pigeon from a standing start no probs and unlike the sparr who is fast he wont give up after a few hundred yards and will chase into headges and catch a bird as well

[Fly_caster]

Frightening stuff guys, very few here in the Emerald Isle as yet but with changing climates and food becoming scarcer in general for all species I expect that it won't be long before we have a sizeable population here too.

 

At least they return to their food and can be trapped - unlike Percy !

 

 

We've enough problems here with Sparrow Hawks and Percy's without these killers.

 

 

ATB,

 

 

Steve

[Guest wattle]

if you combine the sparrow hawks ways at hunting and the peregrines way off hunting, thats the way a goshawk can hunt, the are a total nightmare.

[david]

Had a bird taken 2 seasons ago that tried to escape into a tight fir wood that you couldn't throw a stick through. The wood was pitch black inside the trees.

The goss'managed to somehow get into the tree canopy and chased it through the branches like roadrunner.(he got the pigeon)

 

Never seen anything like this before or since.The agility of these big winged critters needs to be seen to be believed..

Gosshawks pass my loft at intervals throughout the year but i have to be honest and say the most damage i receive is from sparrowhawks.

 

 

DAVID

[TREBLE D]

was told by a farmer that he came across a gossys nest in his local wood and the ground was litterd with red squirel tailes ,dont think it nested there the next year

[Guest stb-]

PLENTY ABOUT ROUND THE STIRLING AREA

[REDROCKET]

you've got me wondering we got hit last week bop chased the doo for about 170m 40m of that through thickish woods

where it caught the bird started stripping it from the tail up wards by the look of it half its tail missing and all the feathers stripped from the lower back i thought it was a sparrow hawk what do you's think.

[just ask me]

if you combine the sparrow hawks ways at hunting and the peregrines way off hunting, thats the way a goshawk can hunt, the are a total nightmare.

 

 

would agree that why i say bit like a lurcher on a rabbit