Birds of prey

steve Global Moderator From Sunny Ilkeston Posts: 6,710	Birds of prey Aug 21, 2011 11:35:57 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steve on Aug 21, 2011 11:35:57 GMT From the Southport bird of prey display
	Growing exotically

sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	Birds of prey Aug 21, 2011 13:09:12 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Aug 21, 2011 13:09:12 GMT wonder if they are the same ones we get at the County show here? Ther are usually quite a number on display. Bonny birds.
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Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,968	Birds of prey Aug 21, 2011 13:34:20 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Aug 21, 2011 13:34:20 GMT I like seeing these. They had the local ones at the RAF Marham Air Show recently.

Fractal Top Member Posts: 1,859	Birds of prey Aug 21, 2011 14:09:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fractal on Aug 21, 2011 14:09:47 GMT That Gyr Falcon is a handsome chappie! I like the Red Kite too, quite a few now in my area which is great.

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Birds of prey Aug 21, 2011 16:48:30 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Aug 21, 2011 16:48:30 GMT beautiful birds

wildlifefriendly Guest	Birds of prey Aug 21, 2011 17:00:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by wildlifefriendly on Aug 21, 2011 17:00:00 GMT They are beautiful birds, it never ceases to amaze me how much larger they are when you see them up close. We have a pair of Red Kites nesting close to us, I always thought they were about Blackbird sized.

Louise Top Member Posts: 3,363	Birds of prey Aug 21, 2011 17:25:12 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Louise on Aug 21, 2011 17:25:12 GMT Brilliant pictures, Steve

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Birds of prey Oct 2, 2011 13:04:31 GMT

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Post by Fractal on Oct 2, 2011 13:04:31 GMT

Tawny owl at work the other week. It's head had some cobwebs on it so he/she must have been trying to get out all night. We caught it and kept it in a suitable cardboard box in a quiet place until the Wildlife officer came to take it away. She said they would check it over, feed it and bring it back for release in the next day or so.

Lou78W Top Member Posts: 9,402	Birds of prey Oct 2, 2011 13:24:38 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Lou78W on Oct 2, 2011 13:24:38 GMT What a little beauty....will show this to Brian; I think your phone went off when he was looking at the pic Will they actually bring it back to the GC...or just the area?
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Fractal Top Member Posts: 1,859	Birds of prey Oct 2, 2011 13:26:08 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fractal on Oct 2, 2011 13:26:08 GMT Back to the centre she said. I must find out if this happened as I was on holiday after this picture was taken.

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Birds of prey Oct 2, 2011 13:28:49 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Oct 2, 2011 13:28:49 GMT beautiful bird, hope it found it's way home in the end

Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,968	Birds of prey Oct 2, 2011 14:18:58 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Oct 2, 2011 14:18:58 GMT What lovely markings.

peony Top Member Posts: 4,719	Birds of prey Oct 2, 2011 14:43:27 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by peony on Oct 2, 2011 14:43:27 GMT Its beautiful Steve, seeing its feather markings in your photograph, I understand now why they are so difficult to spot in the trees. I know we have some in the trees around us because I hear them calling, but I've only seen one once
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steve Global Moderator From Sunny Ilkeston Posts: 6,710	Birds of prey Oct 2, 2011 17:16:21 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steve on Oct 2, 2011 17:16:21 GMT A beautiful bird isn't it A few here from Elvaston castle today
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Birds of prey Oct 2, 2011 20:29:17 GMT

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Hope the tawny owl was O.K. SteveN, wonder how it got in?
Lovely pics. Steve, especially the little female on the right in the last one!

I saw a male sparrowhawk on the roof opposite us this evening, I've not seen a male here before, it swooped off after a group of small birds flying past, it might have caught one as it disappeared behind the houses & didn't come back.

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