Thank you for the link wild edges - a beautifully filmed video. We don't often get them here, in fact I am not sure if I have ever seen one in the wild, although we did have two kestrels resting in our garden this morning, which was a lovely sight.
I'm a bit spoiled around here for raptors. Peregrines breed on the hill behind the house, buzzards fly over daily, sparrowhawks are regular garden visitors, red kites are often flying over during lambing season, I see kestrels and hobbies while walking the dog, the woods are full of tawny owls hooting at night and we even have short eared owls on the bog just up the road and breeding goshawks not far away. Local abundance always distort your perspective of what's happening elsewhere though.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
You are lucky wild edges - if we get even one or two of those somewhere over the island we count ourselves lucky, no hobbies or goshawks here as far as I know. However we do have an abundance of sea/shore birds, gulls, terns, waders etc. so I guess that evens things out.
Since I last posted the Sparrowhawk has got Hop-along, my name for an injured collard dove, it lasted all year with an injured leg but now it's partner is alone and the feathers under the bird table tell the tale.☹
It's amazing how well wild birds do with injured legs. We had a starling pair visiting that raised a big brood of chicks 2 years in a row and one of the adults only had one working leg. I assume it was the same bird anyway. Then we had this robin with an injured leg this year that raised a brood of chicks too. I did help him out with regular mealworm donations though
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I see the RSPB have changed barn owl status to thriving, and yawned owl status to struggling. Quite s change.
Where did you see the status change out of interest? I see the BTO has them both listed as favourable conservation status now which is great news. I assume autocorrect changed tawny to yawned?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I see the RSPB have changed barn owl status to thriving, and yawned owl status to struggling. Quite s change.