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Post by spectrum on Oct 20, 2023 7:20:33 GMT 1
Not seen or heard any southbound this year, I know there is a West and East corridor that they use, we are on the West side, so perhaps they are on the Eastern side.  |
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Post by cernunnos on Oct 20, 2023 7:26:34 GMT 1
Due to the warm South wind the migration hasn't really started yet ,just a few cranes are on the move. You can follow it on the LPO site.
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Post by Veem on Oct 20, 2023 8:27:27 GMT 1
I saw about 20 flying SW yesterday. Unusually, they were completely silent.
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Post by houpla on Oct 20, 2023 14:08:36 GMT 1
I've heard them over the last few days but not seen them due to cloud cover.
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Post by cernunnos on Oct 20, 2023 14:30:43 GMT 1
They need a following wind , try flying 1000km or more against the wind.  |
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Post by houpla on Oct 20, 2023 15:14:43 GMT 1
I'm not even going to try 100m against what's blowing out there at the moment  |
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Post by Veem on Oct 20, 2023 19:07:57 GMT 1
We've had wind literally doing 180 turns today. Any grues up there today would have been flapping like mad just to stay still.
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Post by houpla on Oct 20, 2023 19:19:31 GMT 1
Yet there was some sort of raptor (big but with a sparrowhawk-like tail) swooping gracefully over the next door field as though it was a mere light breeze  |
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Post by spectrum on Oct 21, 2023 7:34:58 GMT 1
Yet there was some sort of raptor (big but with a sparrowhawk-like tail) swooping gracefully over the next door field as though it was a mere light breeze Could have been a Goshawk, bigger version of a Sparrowhawk. |
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Post by houpla on Oct 21, 2023 8:41:18 GMT 1
Do you happen to know whether they attack chickens, spectrum? |
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Post by cernunnos on Oct 21, 2023 8:45:44 GMT 1
A high-speed hunter that effortlessly weaves through its woodland home, the goshawk can take a wide variety of prey. Common food includes other birds, such as wood pigeons, corvids (members of the crow family) and game birds. Squirrels, rabbits and other mammals are also regularly taken.
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Post by spectrum on Oct 21, 2023 11:33:02 GMT 1
Do you happen to know whether they attack chickens, spectrum ? Could do as said above capable of taking rabbits, also could be the aptly named Hen Harrier, once watched one hunting in afield about quarter of a mile away through binoculars, a magnificent sight as long as you are not a rabbit. Also in the same field different day had the honour of watching a Short-Toed Eagle doing battle with a snake, only one winner. |
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Post by houpla on Oct 21, 2023 13:08:11 GMT 1
Well Oven Ready, my handicappée, had better keep under cover then! Bless her, she's had a dislocated hip for about a year now, but she trundles around with the others, quite happy and healthy apart from the limp. She can't run, though, so a sitting duck (ha!) for predators.
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Post by cernunnos on Oct 21, 2023 19:07:56 GMT 1
Chicken died today , just two left and we will be " chickenless"
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Post by houpla on Oct 21, 2023 20:00:57 GMT 1
Oh I am sorry, cernunnos. Can't imagine life without the girls. Will you get some more and start afresh when the survivors are gone? It's easier than trying to introduce new ones to old ones, isn't it? |
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