The Birds In The Garden And Everywhere Else Thread

[CountyJim]

https://vimeo.com/446503080

Not sure if this link works I took this last week on canal by us in Malpas lovely family she had 7 when they where born lost one

 

[K23]

https://twitter.com/colinda80667186/status/1292220234913505281?s=21

Imagine getting one of those on your birdfeeders with its 2.7m wingspan!

More commonly know as a Lammergeier these days. This youngster appears to have been been hanging around in the Peak District for the last 4-5 weeks and is suspected as being the offspring of some birds released somewhere in the Alps but it's not yet a self-sustaining population.

 

[K23]

https://twitter.com/colinda80667186/status/1292220234913505281?s=21

Lammergeier update (from RBA Weekly digest)

With the inglorious grouse shooting season nearly upon us in northern England, and 2020’s Hen Harrier Day fresh in our minds, the lingering young Lammergeier in the Crowden area of Derbyshire throughout this week is in twofold danger – partly of inadvertently ingesting poisoned bait left out by those ‘bad apples’ of the otherwise blameless gamekeeping community…

…and partly of becoming repatriated back to the alpine regions of mainland Europe. The press release issued by Peak District National Park is something of a considered gem both in what it does and what it doesn’t, quite, say.

That, in the same breath, the Chief Executive of Peak District National Park identifies the ongoing, illegal persecution of raptors in the area but also thanks, amongst others, landowners, gamekeepers and land managers – three ‘custodians of our protected landscapes’ who all, at one point or another, have all at a national level supplied convictions for wildlife crime from amongst their numbers - is bleakly ironic.

That the press release concludes by suggesting that the Lammergeier may need human intervention to remove it from northern England to ensure its welfare ‘in our changeable weather conditions’ is pretty disingenuous. The Chief Executive, of course, needs to keep all of the Peak District National Park’s stakeholders happy, and is stopping just short of saying that it’s statistically only a matter of time before some grisly, illegal mishap befalls the bird.

That though, is surely the damning truth of the matter…

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/happypixr/status/1294619859557298176?s=21

 

[K23]

https://twitter.com/happypixr/status/1294619859557298176?s=21

Doesn't look very red-bellied to me. Where was that? I'm guessing not in the UK?

 

[Darran]

Doesn't look very red-bellied to me. Where was that? I'm guessing not in the UK?

Tennessee I think Dave.

 

[Best_loser]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53784288

RIP

 

[Darran]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53784288

 

[K23]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53784288

RIP

That's a shame. I hope Iolo is right and there was no foul play involved.

I can certainly relate to Iolo's thoughts when he saw the size of the Golden Eagle in relation to fairly big birds like buzzards and red kites though. A few years ago I was driving along a very straight and very remote road in a very remote part of Spain towards a little place called Cabeza del Buey when my attention was drawn to a group of about 15 - 20 black kites randomly flying about in a field on the left up ahead and as I got almost level with them and slowed down a bit, this enormous bird about 2-3 times bigger than the black kites, suddenly swooped low through the group, up over the fence and over the road only about 15 metres ahead of me and it really made me jump. I knew instantly it was a Golden Eagle as it was so close but in the strange light against the pale parched fields, it had looked completely black at first which made it look even more awesome. Unfortunately, by the time I'd stopped and got out of the car, it was already too far away to get a decent photograph but it was definitely one of those rare encounters you never forget.

 

[Darran]

Pity for the crows in Massachusetts.

 

[Thrasher]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53784288

RIP

That's a shame. I hope Iolo is right and there was no foul play involved.

Was back home very recently and visited that area. Saw many birds of prey. I would be surprised if it was foul play. People on all sides of the argument there are pretty decent...

 

[K23]

Pity for the crows in Massachusetts.

 

[Darran]

A heron taking a shit.


https://twitter.com/carlbovisnature/status/1295410742389280768?s=21

 

[Darran]

Incredible capture again.


https://twitter.com/carlbovisnature/status/1297269911950102529?s=21

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/carlbovisnature/status/1297253186869370882?s=21