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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torchepot" data-source="post: 3364142" data-attributes="member: 123265">Conor Mark Jameson's "Looking for the Goshawk" is a good read, documenting the increasing presence in German cities especially Berlin. Maybe it's just a matter of time before they adapt to urban life in London. I spend a lot of time looking for Goshawk here - prime habitat - and they are absolute b*****s. I found a nest a few years back a good walk from here and not wanting to disturb the birds I only went past a few times (visible from the track), the adult would drop from the nest like a stone, behind the tree, open it's wings at the last second and glide downhill and vanish in a fraction of a second. I know they are sometimes close by because we have twice flushed one from prey close to the house (woodpigeon and pheasant) and very occasionally caught glimpses of them, even once through the garden! (only twice had really good views in eight years and for some reason never heard them calling or seen them displaying) I think they could very easily escape detection.</blockquote>