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'Hawking' birds

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  • 07-05-2011 4:20pm
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    mr socco
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭


    Went out my front door yesterday to the sight of a Dragonfly with a bird in hot pursuit! Fairly sure it must have been a Spotted Flycatcher but only got a fairly brief look so couldn't get a positive I.D. Was a plain looking brownish/greyish bird anyway so most likely a Spotted Flycatcher.

    Does anyone know/have seen any other birds 'hawk' like this - apart from the obvious Swallows, Martins and Swifts? Perhaps it was a Meadow Pipit I saw, really don't know if they hunt like this though!? Saw on another thread a Black Headed Gull attempting to catch a Dragonfly mid-flight.

    Fascinating sight it was anyway.


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    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    I've seen the following hawking for insects
    starlings
    black-headed gulls - already flying but very slow
    house sparrows
    pied wagtail
    Grey wagtail


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    Mothman
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    Chaffinch and Robin, both chasing damselflies.


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    mr socco
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭mr socco


    Thanks lads, could have been almost anything then!


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