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UK - Raptor attacks cyclist (1 Viewer)
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Stephen Dunstan
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Doesn't seem much doubt to me, you can even hear them in the video.
Andy Adcock
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The video not being that clear, I wasn't sure how you'd eliminate an escape?
It seems to show a very red tail in one shot and some American Hawks have a very Buzzard like call?
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Stephen Dunstan
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The RSPB are now quoted on the updated link as saying it is a Buzzard, earlier a different 'expert' had said possibly Sparrowhawk or Merlin!
MTem
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Yes a Buzzard - it is clearly visible perched in a tree before starting its bombing run in a section at the end of the video. My guess is that its young has/have just fledged and one is low down or grounded near the point it attacks. The single young of the pair that nested in a row of trees near my house has just moved out and the adults have become much noisier and approach much closer to activity on the nearby footpath. No fly-by's yet though!
Wouldn't walk the dog along that stretch at the moment.
No doubt there will be letters calling for a cull in the Daily Rail and the Daily Excess....
Mick
Wouldn't walk the dog along that stretch at the moment.
No doubt there will be letters calling for a cull in the Daily Rail and the Daily Excess....
Mick
Andy Adcock
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It's a very red tail for a UK bird?
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Stephen Dunstan
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I am more inclined to go with your earlier suggestion about the quality of the video than make firm judgements on the tail colour from it.
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Farnboro John
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Hard to judge poor quality video colours. However, a bit of play with the pause button showed this bird to have substantial carpal patches, a Buzzard feature but not, so far as I can see from web photos, a Red-tailed Hawk one.
However, if the cyclist can't find another route just for the duration of the nesting season, he's a top-quality dick. But then the article does say he's a squaddie.....
John
However, if the cyclist can't find another route just for the duration of the nesting season, he's a top-quality dick. But then the article does say he's a squaddie.....
John
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