Funny looking crow

[JohnGalway 1,043]

I put up a thread someplace before, same type bird that got hit by a car, mate found it. Took a pic and think it got identified as a kestrel. Anyway, I'm no expert, just going on what I was told.

 

Seems like it's not just a funny looking crow then

[Quixote 9]

Either way, I'm pretty certain it's not a crow

[JohnGalway 1,043]

It's a chameleon doing a good impression of a crow then

[arnieboy 93]

i honestly thought it was a sparrow hawk in the top pics and not sure about the second as it looks too big

[OldTrapCollector 376]

It is a female sparrowhawk in first pics and a buzzard in the second lot - not a goshawk or kestrel in sight!

 

OTC

[arnieboy 93]

thanks otc i thought i was seein things

[JohnGalway 1,043]

It is a female sparrowhawk in first pics and a buzzard in the second lot - not a goshawk or kestrel in sight!

 

OTC

 

Cheers OTC There are a fair few of them around here now.

Edited February 7, 2010 by JohnGalway

[OldTrapCollector 376]

Cheers OTC There are a fair few of them around here now.

 

John, there's a few of them around every where now it seems, I have never seen so many round this part of the world

 

OTC

[JohnGalway 1,043]

They only moved in here in the past 4 or 5 years. I'd not seen anything like them before that, nice to see them hoovering, but, I'm sure they give the small birds a battering. I've seen seagulls killed on the island across the way, would they manage one I wonder? Not the black backs but smaller gulls.

[darrell jnr 16]

hi mate it,s defo a sparrowhawk but a male not a female as otc has stated...males have the black barred chest females have orange barred chest...atb fellas great photos all the same...darrell.

[John Keswick 119]

hi mate it,s defo a sparrowhawk but a male not a female as otc has stated...males have the black barred chest females have orange barred chest...atb fellas great photos all the same...darrell.

 

[john b 38]

They only moved in here in the past 4 or 5 years. I'd not seen anything like them before that, nice to see them hoovering,

 

Does they use a Dyson ?

[OldTrapCollector 376]

Edited: Double post

 

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Edited February 8, 2010 by OldTrapCollector

[OldTrapCollector 376]

hi mate it,s defo a sparrowhawk but a male not a female as otc has stated...males have the black barred chest females have orange barred chest...atb fellas great photos all the same...darrell.

 

I beg to differ on this one Darrell - unless you know something that I don't?

 

The musket is 2/3 the size of the spar and a totally different colour

 

These guys 'appear' to know a thing or two about British Birds and their identification, if my word is unqualified ...

 

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/s/sparrowhawk/index.aspx

 

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[JohnGalway 1,043]

They only moved in here in the past 4 or 5 years. I'd not seen anything like them before that, nice to see them hoovering,

 

Does they use a Dyson ?

 

I tell you John, my larsen was never as clean as when that fella left it, we could do a barter service, he can hoover and I'll supply greycrows and magpies