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  • arthur
    arthur Posts: 257
    No photo but I'm certain I saw a Peregrine Falcon near Woolwich Dockyard yesterday!
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 1,641
    Last week I just about managed to avoid running over a kestrel. It was feasting on some roadkill. Saw it soon enough to allow me to slow down sufficiently. It did lose a few feathers, but looked in good condition as it flew off.
    Beautiful creature.
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 1,641
    CaptainRobbo said:
    Last week I just about managed to avoid running over a kestrel. It was feasting on some roadkill. Saw it soon enough to allow me to slow down sufficiently. It did lose a few feathers, but looked in good condition as it flew off.
    Beautiful creature.
    Just looked at some photos and it was more likely a peregrine falcon, had bright yellow legs and darker feathers.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,989
    CaptainRobbo said:
    CaptainRobbo said:
    Last week I just about managed to avoid running over a kestrel. It was feasting on some roadkill. Saw it soon enough to allow me to slow down sufficiently. It did lose a few feathers, but looked in good condition as it flew off.
    Beautiful creature.
    Just looked at some photos and it was more likely a peregrine falcon, had bright yellow legs and darker feathers.
    Maybe a buzzard ..very often mistaken for peregrine falcons but bigger but more inclined to go for carrion .
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 1,641
    Had dark grey feathers, it didn't hang around to get a good look at it 
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,869
    Maybe sparrowhawk? Bright yellow legs and darker feathers would fit that and the females are quite sizeable.

    Buzzard also fits the description, but they're really big. If you saw one close up on road-kill, your first thought would be **** me, look at the size of that! If that wasn't how you reacted, sparrowhawk might be a better bet.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,378
    edited August 2025
    arthur said:
    No photo but I'm certain I saw a Peregrine Falcon near Woolwich Dockyard yesterday!
    I think I once saw one as I exited the Blackwall  tunnel heading north. Wouldn’t be that surprising as they nest on tall buildings. 
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 1,641
    edited August 2025
    Swindon_Addick said:
    Maybe sparrowhawk? Bright yellow legs and darker feathers would fit that and the females are quite sizeable.

    Buzzard also fits the description, but they're really big. If you saw one close up on road-kill, your first thought would be **** me, look at the size of that! If that wasn't how you reacted, sparrowhawk might be a better bet.
    Thanks, I often see birds of prey driving to and from work through country lanes. Quite often see ghostly figures of owls during the dark mornings.
    Once came round a bend to see a mighty beast perched on a fence post, stopped my van but before I could take a pic it was gone, I think that could've been a buzzard.
    Just checked images of a sparrow hawk and it looks very similar to what I encountered 👍
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,308
    At the Watford game, I parked up and walking to the ground I heard the familiar screech of a Parakeet. My 10 year old grandson was amazed to see this bird sitting on a tree branch. We live in Norfolk so pretty rich in bird life but not parakeets. I lived in chislehurst growing up and used to go down to Cooper's school to spot them in the 70s. Clearly they rapidly increased. Lots of them around South London now. 
  • Busterblitz
    Busterblitz Posts: 215
    Nice to see a Peregrine today flying around the ground today in the second half. 

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  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,861
    The Daily Mirror carried a story of a bloke who set up a hide in the garden and sat there for weeks waiting his chance.



    For what it's worth I set up my iphone on a little tripod and placed it near the bird bath in the garden.  I then sat by the patio doors drinking tea with the remote clicker.  After 10 minutes I abandoned the project - there were no birds and I was as bored as you could be.
  • Mrs. Brightside
    Mrs. Brightside Posts: 132

    Not a bird, but it can fly!.... Pine Chafer. 

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,520
    Just completed my nerdy summary of bird sightings for 2025.


  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,872
    Stig said:
    Just completed my nerdy summary of bird sightings for 2025.


    That's amazing @Stig, well done, some wonderful sightings there.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,520
    Thanks Emmy, I did get really luck with some of them, but then I did put the hours in ;)
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,520
    edited February 24
    An albino Wood Duck. This isn't as rare as I thought it might be. I checked the UK sightings and more of them were albinos than I would have thought. I wonder if someone has been breeding them like that?
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,475
    ME14addick said:
    Stig said:
    Just completed my nerdy summary of bird sightings for 2025.


    That's amazing @Stig, well done, some wonderful sightings there.
    Is that a particular app?
  • arthur
    arthur Posts: 257
    I did the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and was amazed to see a Great Spotted Woodpecker in my garden.  I was seeing him regularly last spring and then not at all since or even recently except for once in that hour for the watch!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,520
    KiwiValley said:
    ME14addick said:
    Stig said:
    Just completed my nerdy summary of bird sightings for 2025.


    That's amazing @Stig, well done, some wonderful sightings there.
    Is that a particular app?
    No, it's just me being nerdy.

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