Crazy raptor week

Manders · #1 (**permalink**) 26-11-2011, 07:41 PM

We keep a small aviary in the garden, last week or so weve had a lot of uninvited visitors such as this...

this has been here 5 times today, possibly a young inexperienced bird getting very hungry?

and a few ays ago a kestrel in the same spot and possibly a merlin but not sure as that one was pretty quick, just saw the silhouette as it dissapeared.

the poacher · #2 (**permalink**) 26-11-2011, 10:40 PM

who , who took those pictures you must feel great

Dogghound · #3 (**permalink**) 27-11-2011, 07:37 AM

Its an adult female rather than a young bird, it looks like quite a mature bird too.

faz · #4 (**permalink**) 27-11-2011, 08:20 AM

Welcome to WAB

its a female sparrow hawk not much you can do to stop her attacking you Avery. And you may well see her on the wire trying to catch your birds as they have very long legs a male caught one of my canaries this way many years ago.

I put up extra length of wood of all round the top so it is over hanging to try and deter them it stopped cats

but not sparrow hawks

Manders · #5 (**permalink**) 27-11-2011, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by faz

Welcome to WAB

its a female sparrow hawk not much you can do to stop her attacking you Avery. And you may well see her on the wire trying to catch your birds as they have very long legs a male caught one of my canaries this way many years ago.

I put up extra length of wood of all round the top so it is over hanging to try and deter them it stopped cats

but not sparrow hawks

Yep, shes been flying at the wire quite a few times, and stalks aroung the larger parrakeet aviary but shes too big the get the feet past the bird wire. The parrakeets shout warnings to each other if shes around anyhow. The odd thing this time was she was here virtually all day, landed less than 6 feet from where i was stood one time and earlier in the week we had what looked like a kestrel landing also.