Malcolm Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Are Hawks usually seen on Shetland? Asking as I have seen two different hawks in my garden this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girzie Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Merlin is a resident, also see sparrowhawk, kestrel, hen harrier, marsh harrier, osprey and peregrine all seen occasionally alondg with buzzards and sometimes a hobby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted November 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 I just looked googled, it was a Peregrine falcon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girzie Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Excellent. What luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Most folk miss them as the commonest place to see them is hovering at a fair height, watching for mice or whatever to dive on and catch. Its higher than what is normally within anyone's field of vision, so unless you're looking skyward for some other reason, or are significantly uphill from them doing it you're oblivious. Not overly keen on those things though, one attacked me when I was a toddler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 ^ Seriously? Were you wearing a mouse costume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 The only birds of prey I've seen up here were a sparrowhawk at the landward end of jetty 4 when I was working at Sullom, and the snowy owl in Unst. Now that was an impressive bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Snowy Owls are a miss since they stopped coming, boanny things, but Ospreys feeding in Sand Water for twartree days were braaly impressive. Think that was last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girzie Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Black kite, red kite, ospreys, common buzzard and rough legged buzzard - check out shetland nature website and see what's around and when/where. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooter Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Seen a few Kestrels around and these 4 Merlin earlier this year, not a great photo though.http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll278/Gorwad/IMG_2087.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 ^ Seriously? Were you wearing a mouse costume? Yup, I'm serious. No mouse costume though, but I was wearing something that had an amount of bright scarlet colour on it. It was speculated at the time that the bird may have thought the red was a fresh and bloody rabbit etc crang. My grandmidder witnessed it, in fact I knew nothing about it until she came charging up to me and started waving her arms in the air above my head. She'd only been standing a few yards away, and caught sight of him diving towards the spot I was playing at, out of the corner of her eye. By the time she got there, and he realised it all wasn't such a good idea after all, she claimed he actually hit one of hers arms with a flap of of one of his wings as he tried to pull away, he was that close. In the melee she made no attempt to identify the species, all she could tell of it was that it was a "medium" sized bird, and it dived like a stone dropping. Hence it was supposed it had been a hawk of some sort or similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerwick Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 If your looking for wild birds in Shetland try the Marlex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudden Stop Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 ^^^Auld crows maybe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klanky Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 ^ Seriously? Were you wearing a mouse costume? Yup, I'm serious. No mouse costume though, but I was wearing something that had an amount of bright scarlet colour on it. It was speculated at the time that the bird may have thought the red was a fresh and bloody rabbit etc crang. My grandmidder witnessed it, in fact I knew nothing about it until she came charging up to me and started waving her arms in the air above my head. She'd only been standing a few yards away, and caught sight of him diving towards the spot I was playing at, out of the corner of her eye. By the time she got there, and he realised it all wasn't such a good idea after all, she claimed he actually hit one of hers arms with a flap of of one of his wings as he tried to pull away, he was that close. In the melee she made no attempt to identify the species, all she could tell of it was that it was a "medium" sized bird, and it dived like a stone dropping. Hence it was supposed it had been a hawk of some sort or similar. Bonxie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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