Fetch Birdwatchers
166 watchers
Oct 2020
5:25pm, 12 Oct 2020
3,183 posts
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jacdaw
Looks like the bearded vulture might be heading home. I've seen lots of pictures of it in Lincolnshire over the weekend, including disturbing ones of it eating roadkill. A vulture charity checked it out, from a distance, and said it looked OK, but I think there was concern over the risk of it becoming roadkill. Anyway, it has been seen over Sandy today, and London this afternoon. I believe some feathers it shed have been collected, and a genetic analysis might show which population it originally came from. |
Oct 2020
6:04pm, 12 Oct 2020
18,163 posts
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Rosehip
 and I missed it in Sandy today too!
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Oct 2020
7:58pm, 12 Oct 2020
3,080 posts
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J2R
There was a photo of it on a main road outside Peterborough yesterday, causing something of a tailback. Yes, roadkill is an obvious attraction but it would be appalling if it became roadkill itself, as jacdaw says.
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Oct 2020
12:14pm, 13 Oct 2020
4,175 posts
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steve45
Kingfisher whizzing down river this morning. Good...J2R and Redwings. None for me yet and I listen often! |
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Oct 2020
12:33pm, 13 Oct 2020
3,714 posts
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12barDavid
Our eldest daughter, who lives in Cambridge, had this visitor in her back garden yesterday. |
Oct 2020
12:36pm, 13 Oct 2020
2,277 posts
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flyingfinn
Just had a female (or possibly a juvenile by it's naive behaviour?) Sparrowhawk versus four Blue Tits by my feeders. Some expert use of the rose bush by the Blue Tits to firstly evade the Sprawk and then hurl an immense amount of abuse from extremely close quarters. The Sprawk tried going into the bush at one point but that just enabled one of the Blue Tits to perch pretty much by it's ear and let it know exactly what it thought whilst the Sprawk was too constricted to threaten it. It eventually departed minus lunch.
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Oct 2020
12:37pm, 13 Oct 2020
2,278 posts
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flyingfinn
In Redwing news, we're getting lots over but I'm yet to see any on the ground feeding.
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Oct 2020
1:32pm, 13 Oct 2020
3,081 posts
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J2R
12barDavid, I had a garden visit from a red-legged partridge last year, which came as a great surprise as I'm in a suburban area at least 1.5 miles from the nearest farmland. Maybe they're learning? ff, interesting about the sparrowhawk! I hope it managed to get lunch elsewhere, though, preferably a big lunch of a woodpigeon. I'm not anti-woodpigeon per se, but there are so many of them, and they eat so much... |
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Oct 2020
2:51pm, 13 Oct 2020
2,279 posts
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flyingfinn
We've had a pair of Sprawks around since early in the year and judging by the 'left-overs' that I've seen I think they've been doing their best to help out with our abundance of corpulent woodpigs. I only normally see them around the feeders when conditions are very hard so coupled with it's lack of expertise I strongly suspect that today's visitor was probably a first year juvenile. It was also small for a female and certainly smaller than the one that has been around since last winter but unless you get a very good look telling the difference between a female and a juvenile male is very hard.
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Oct 2020
3:08pm, 13 Oct 2020
2,280 posts
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flyingfinn
So thanks to some genetic analysis on some shed feathers they now know that the Bearded Vulture is a female called Vigo that came from a wild nest in the French Alps last year derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk
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