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Woodcock vs sparrow hawk

  • 09-04-2014 8:06am
    #1
    dodderangler
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    Yes you read correctly.
    Coming off the clondalkin exit and seen a woodcock fly by at full speed being Perseus by a female spar.
    I was stopped at traffic and seen them so I had a good glimpse. I know we have resident all year woodcock here but clondalkin of all places and secondly a spar chasing it? I've shot woodcock before and I know how fast they are so was amazed to see a spar actually at its rear chasing it. also looked like the spar had it as the woody went into a hedgerow in small land behind a fence and the spar folded her wings so perhaps she got it.
    Made my morning to see it


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  • #2
    bernard0368
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    Was this down by the Kingswood exit, close to Corkagh park?
    My dogs raised one there on Saturday.


  • #3
    dodderangler
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    bernard0368 wrote: »
    Was this down by the Kingswood exit, close to Corkagh park?
    My dogs raised one there on Saturday.

    About a minute drive from it


  • #4
    Graces7
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    once watched hours a cuckoo being repeatedly mobbed by a flock of assorted small birds. not here in kerry. in that house i could watch the cuckoo easily. great bird place. grasshopper warbler, jack snipe.


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