Ha I love his poofy trousers too, looks like a Shakespearian actor! We were really excited because we've both been on those bird handling days and are always on the look out for birds of prey. I read somewhere that having an apex predator means you have a really healthy neighbourhood eco system...starts singing The Circle of Life from The Lion King...
What does it mean if you regularly have a pair of red kites circling your garden? I saw one this morning dive bomb into a front garden and then take straight off again in front of my car. Lovely coloured bird.
Think it means you're very lucky indeed Gardenmaiden. I've only ever seen Red Kites when visiting the Welsh rellies, but I know they're spreading across the country and have been seen in East Anglia so maybe one day ....
We live near oak woodland, and do get the occasional visit to our garden by Sparrowhawks who will sometimes take an unwary blackbird, but more often than not they'll take a collared dove or a fat woodpigeon - plucking and tucking into them on the lawn.
However, earlier in the year we had several visits from a pair of Peregrines who were nesting and rearing a brood of 4 chicks on the nearby cathedral spire We no longer have a row of fat woodpigeons habitually sitting on our roof ridge.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We've had a sparrowhawk a couple of times, and a peregrine chasing a blackbird round the garden, but that was in our first year in our house and we've not seen it since. We have been told that there was a pair in the area.
I couldn't believe it this lunchtime Nut, there I was in a colleague's car, travelling across the high flat land near the North Norfolk coast, when there it was, circling, swooping and soaring above a field of rape stubble - a Red Kite
My first outside of Wales
What a coincidence, when we were only talking about them yesterday
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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sparrow hawk,beautiful birds .
Lovely bird,but not so good for the other birds visiting your garden,we had one taking a greater spotted woodpecker last yaer.
Too many for me.........
Ha I love his poofy trousers too, looks like a Shakespearian actor! We were really excited because we've both been on those bird handling days and are always on the look out for birds of prey. I read somewhere that having an apex predator means you have a really healthy neighbourhood eco system...starts singing The Circle of Life from The Lion King...
What does it mean if you regularly have a pair of red kites circling your garden? I saw one this morning dive bomb into a front garden and then take straight off again in front of my car. Lovely coloured bird.
Think it means you're very lucky indeed Gardenmaiden.
I've only ever seen Red Kites when visiting the Welsh rellies, but I know they're spreading across the country and have been seen in East Anglia so maybe one day ....
We live near oak woodland, and do get the occasional visit to our garden by Sparrowhawks who will sometimes take an unwary blackbird, but more often than not they'll take a collared dove
or a fat woodpigeon - plucking and tucking into them on the lawn.
However, earlier in the year we had several visits from a pair of Peregrines who were nesting and rearing a brood of 4 chicks on the nearby cathedral spire
We no longer have a row of fat woodpigeons habitually sitting on our roof ridge.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We've had a sparrowhawk a couple of times, and a peregrine chasing a blackbird round the garden, but that was in our first year in our house and we've not seen it since. We have been told that there was a pair in the area.
WE have kites more often now Dove, maybe you'll be lucky when you come here.
We had a hobby as well, I didn't ID that, never seen one before.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I couldn't believe it this lunchtime Nut, there I was in a colleague's car, travelling across the high flat land near the North Norfolk coast, when there it was, circling, swooping and soaring above a field of rape stubble - a Red Kite
My first outside of Wales
What a coincidence, when we were only talking about them yesterday
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'll try and book one for Monday Dove.
In the sticks near Peterborough