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Any idea what this bird is?

  • 29-05-2020 11:54am
    #1
    AckwelFoley
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    Any idea what this bird is?


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  • #2
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,428 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    AckwelFoley wrote: »
    Any idea what this bird is?

    Might help to include a pic of the bird ( well at least a link)

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #3
    AckwelFoley
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    He was hunting another bird.

    https://youtu.be/lOKuCHhp6Jk


  • #4
    neil_hosey
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    looks like a buzzard


  • #5
    AckwelFoley
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    If you have the sound on when watching the video you will hear this bird glance off the gate shortly after the buzzard.

    The speed is incredible


  • #6
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    AckwelFoley wrote: »
    If you have the sound on when watching the video you will hear this bird glance off the gate shortly after the buzzard.

    The speed is incredible

    Don't think it's a buzzard at all,much too agile, buzzard is bigger, looks like an osprey, though they are rare as Fu*k here, I might be 100 PC wrong


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  • #7
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    AckwelFoley wrote: »
    He was hunting another bird.

    https://youtu.be/lOKuCHhp6Jk

    Great clip


  • #8
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    corks finest wrote: »
    Don't think it's a buzzard at all,much too agile, buzzard is bigger, looks like an osprey, though they are rare as Fu*k here, I might be 100 PC wrong

    Buzzards are very agile. Yes, they like to find an easy meal whenever the oppertunity arrives, but are well capable of chasing pray.

    Of course they are not as agile as some species, but not as lazy as whats often depicted


  • #9
    HoteiMarkii
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭HoteiMarkii


    AckwelFoley wrote: »
    If you have the sound on when watching the video you will hear this bird glance off the gate shortly after the buzzard.

    The speed is incredible

    Fascinating footage.
    It looks like the Buzzard is being pursued by a Sparrowhawk. Both birds appear in frame in the second screenshot (see post #5); the Sparrowhawk is flying over the top rung of the nearest gate, while the Common Buzzard can be seen flying over the gates further on (in the top left hand corner of the image).


  • #10
    upupup
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭upupup


    There's another bird that almost hits the buzzard.Accident or on purpose?
    515854.PNG


  • #11
    AckwelFoley
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    upupup wrote: »
    There's another bird that almost hits the buzzard.Accident or on purpose?
    515854.PNG

    I seen this as this being the bird that the buzzard was hunting.. but missed the strike


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  • #12
    John_Rambo
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    I'd say the Buzzard was after another raptors kill. Other raptor was having none of it, looks like the smaller one (merlin, kestrel, sparrowhawk) gives the passing buzzard a good passing clout.

    Comes in from the left, bang, up and then after the buzzard again.


  • #13
    HoteiMarkii
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭HoteiMarkii


    AckwelFoley wrote: »
    I seen this as this being the bird that the buzzard was hunting.. but missed the strike

    The bird that flies up and away when the Buzzard first appears looks like a Jackdaw. I don't think the Buzzard was trying to predate the Jackdaw at all. It was the least of its worries with a Sparrowhawk on its tail!


  • #14
    upupup
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭upupup


    The bird that was being chased by the Buzzard was a small bird that flew under the gate and went left shown with my wobbly red line
    A dark coloured bird was in the area to the left and was disturbed and almost collided with the Buzzard and then flew straight up.
    The sparrowhawk/Kestrel was following the buzzard for unknown reasons.
    That's my report anyway:)
    515878.PNG


  • #15
    cd07
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭cd07


    The hunter in this case is 100% a buzzard. The bird it was after was 100% a mistle thrush!...sorted!


  • #16
    cd07
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭cd07


    After looking again it cant be seen what the buzzard is hunting but the bird chasing him is definitely a mistle thrush and not a sparrowhawk


  • #17
    magicbastarder
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    how can you tell it's a mistle thrush and not a song thrush? the surrounding landscape?


  • #18
    cd07
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭cd07


    Just by the colouration of the tail. And the size compared to a song thrush. Mistles thrushes are very protective if they've a nest near by and will often cash off predators like crows and birds of prey


  • #19
    HoteiMarkii
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭HoteiMarkii


    cd07 wrote: »
    After looking again it cant be seen what the buzzard is hunting but the bird chasing him is definitely a mistle thrush and not a sparrowhawk

    Nah, not buying it's a Mistle Thrush at all. The bird in the footage is quite a bit larger than a Mistle Thrush. Pause the footage several times after it hits the gate and you can see how long its wingspan is. The speed at which it's flying is phenomenal.


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