LowellMills
Is this your Sanderling?
Not a Q&A, just a thank you to all the contributors to the countless Sparrowhawk/Goshawk threads that I've read through on here over the years. On Thursday I finally got a satisfactory record of Goshawk, while out working in Devon, and it was the various pointers from on here that had stuck, for some reason much more than anything in any book.
Initial reasonable view at distance, grappling with mobbing Carrion Crows before disappearing behind a hillside.
Later a return, to circling right above my and a nearby colleague's heads. It's bird fieldwork so he's a keen birder too and was able to confirm to me afterwards all looked good for Goshawk, of which he has much more experience than me. This viewing of the bird showed the lengthways dashing of the underside I'd learned on here was diagnostic juv Goshawk attire.
Thank you contributors!
Initial reasonable view at distance, grappling with mobbing Carrion Crows before disappearing behind a hillside.
Later a return, to circling right above my and a nearby colleague's heads. It's bird fieldwork so he's a keen birder too and was able to confirm to me afterwards all looked good for Goshawk, of which he has much more experience than me. This viewing of the bird showed the lengthways dashing of the underside I'd learned on here was diagnostic juv Goshawk attire.
Thank you contributors!
