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J2R
J2R
Sep 2020
4:44pm, 1 Sep 2020
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J2R
So the bearded vulture is sticking around, then? It must be successfully feeding itself. I wonder what its diet is?
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Sep 2020
6:19pm, 1 Sep 2020
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Derby Tup
Hen harriers. That’s why nobody’s shot it yet ;-)
Dochart
Dochart
Sep 2020
6:49pm, 1 Sep 2020
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Dochart
that would cause a certain amount of consternation in some quarters, DT!

apparently, they eat bones.
flyingfinn
flyingfinn
Sep 2020
6:56pm, 1 Sep 2020
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flyingfinn
Given the age of some of the twitchers that have been wandering around the Moors looking for it armed only with a road atlas (I saw several when I went looking for it!) and a pac-a-mac from the 70s there's plenty of potential for a healthy carrion supply up there 😉
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Sep 2020
7:01pm, 1 Sep 2020
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Derby Tup
#easypickings
J2R
J2R
Sep 2020
8:10pm, 1 Sep 2020
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J2R
DT, didn't that actually happen a few years ago with eagle owls in the Forest of Bowland? People were getting all excited that the pair may be foreign birds nesting there, for the first time in hundreds (thousands?) of years. Then it was discovered that one of their prey items was the chicks of the local extremely rare hen harriers. Oops! In the end I think it was established that the birds were escapees.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Sep 2020
8:53pm, 1 Sep 2020
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Derby Tup
I think I saw that the eagle owls were eating buzzard but didn’t know about hen harriers
Rosehip
Rosehip
Sep 2020
9:25pm, 1 Sep 2020
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Rosehip
I was told by the falconer at a day out somewhere in Devon that an Eagle Owl's favourite for was cats - I've wanted one ever since :)

Three or for GSWs on the lane through Little Town today - although one was very small and could possibly have been a LSW, maybe - didn't see it well enough - not much bigger than a Robin?
J2R
J2R
Sep 2020
10:45pm, 1 Sep 2020
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J2R
I seem to recall that the Bowland eagle owls had made off with someone's small dog.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Sep 2020
10:49pm, 1 Sep 2020
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Derby Tup
:-O

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