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11-06-2011, 11:25 AM
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| | | Are these heron feathers?
A little background may help. I have a pond and we have herons locally that like to visit. I have observed them on my garage roof and neighbouring roofs but never in the garden, although in the early days one did clean out the pond. They seem to have returned with a vengeance and I will probably net the pond later today (its got a fishing line mesh at the moment).
Today I found some feathers and on checking my weather cam (it takes sky pics every minute) saw a heron had visited my garden shortly before 5am.
Todays story can be read here there are links in there to images of the feathers and the bird etc. I could upload the images here but didn't really want to for feather identification.    
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11-06-2011, 11:29 AM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
Welcome to the site.Some Wabers have posted feathers for id.So it would not go amiss.They are the right color for heron.
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11-06-2011, 11:41 AM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
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Originally Posted by artdemole  Welcome to the site.Some Wabers have posted feathers for id.So it would not go amiss.They are the right color for heron. | thanks for the swift reply. I just tried to upload two to the library but I can't see them to add to the post (says I don't have any images in the library (may be to large or something but no error showed)).
(tried a single image and it showed it as too large, shame it just bombs out with multiple images).
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11-06-2011, 12:03 PM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
Woodpigeon tail feathers. |
11-06-2011, 12:08 PM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
Looking at the third image of feathers on the lawn, it might appear that the wood pigeon has been subject of a strike by sparrow hawk or possibly a cat.
There are an unnatural amount of breast feathers on the ground. |
11-06-2011, 12:32 PM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
many thanks for the swift responses. |
11-06-2011, 03:42 PM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
If the pigeon was killed by a Sparrowhawk then where's the body? As far as I know, they're usually too heavy to be carried very far (someone will probably come along now and contradict this). |
11-06-2011, 03:56 PM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
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Originally Posted by King Edward If the pigeon was killed by a Sparrowhawk then where's the body? As far as I know, they're usually too heavy to be carried very far (someone will probably come along now and contradict this). | I think "very far" are the key words here. The putative sprawk may simply have hopped over the hedge with the body, and if it had eaten part of it it would not weigh so much.  But I'd be inclined to invoke another predator (Fox or cat) clearing up after the original kill.
The sprawk kills that I have seen have had a great many more feathers spread around them.
henrya
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11-06-2011, 04:19 PM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
I caught a hawk kill some time ago (2007) and the feathers were plentiful. You can see the pics here, if these are worthy of adding to site I am happy to do so. There are also a couple of videos I have just uploaded to my youtube account if anyone wants a look: video1 video2
As I am new here I don't want to just throw images unto the server unless theres a need? for them, and from what I have seen there's plenty better than I
To get more back on topic there were no feathers apparent in either of my direct neighbours gardens. |
11-06-2011, 05:14 PM
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| | | Re: Are these heron feathers?
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Originally Posted by thunder I think "very far" are the key words here. The putative sprawk may simply have hopped over the hedge with the body, and if it had eaten part of it it would not weigh so much. But I'd be inclined to invoke another predator (Fox or cat) clearing up after the original kill.
The sprawk kills that I have seen have had a great many more feathers spread around them.
henrya | It might not have been killed. They do sometimes get away after a quick struggle. | | | |
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