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  • arthur
    arthur Posts: 234
    No photo but I'm certain I saw a Peregrine Falcon near Woolwich Dockyard yesterday!
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 612
    Last week I just about managed to avoid running over a kestrel. It was feasting on some roadkill. Saw it soon enough to allow me to slow down sufficiently. It did lose a few feathers, but looked in good condition as it flew off.
    Beautiful creature.
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 612
    CaptainRobbo said:
    Last week I just about managed to avoid running over a kestrel. It was feasting on some roadkill. Saw it soon enough to allow me to slow down sufficiently. It did lose a few feathers, but looked in good condition as it flew off.
    Beautiful creature.
    Just looked at some photos and it was more likely a peregrine falcon, had bright yellow legs and darker feathers.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,902
    CaptainRobbo said:
    CaptainRobbo said:
    Last week I just about managed to avoid running over a kestrel. It was feasting on some roadkill. Saw it soon enough to allow me to slow down sufficiently. It did lose a few feathers, but looked in good condition as it flew off.
    Beautiful creature.
    Just looked at some photos and it was more likely a peregrine falcon, had bright yellow legs and darker feathers.
    Maybe a buzzard ..very often mistaken for peregrine falcons but bigger but more inclined to go for carrion .
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 612
    Had dark grey feathers, it didn't hang around to get a good look at it 
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,640
    Maybe sparrowhawk? Bright yellow legs and darker feathers would fit that and the females are quite sizeable.

    Buzzard also fits the description, but they're really big. If you saw one close up on road-kill, your first thought would be **** me, look at the size of that! If that wasn't how you reacted, sparrowhawk might be a better bet.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    edited August 21
    arthur said:
    No photo but I'm certain I saw a Peregrine Falcon near Woolwich Dockyard yesterday!
    I think I once saw one as I exited the Blackwall  tunnel heading north. Wouldn’t be that surprising as they nest on tall buildings. 
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 612
    edited August 21
    Swindon_Addick said:
    Maybe sparrowhawk? Bright yellow legs and darker feathers would fit that and the females are quite sizeable.

    Buzzard also fits the description, but they're really big. If you saw one close up on road-kill, your first thought would be **** me, look at the size of that! If that wasn't how you reacted, sparrowhawk might be a better bet.
    Thanks, I often see birds of prey driving to and from work through country lanes. Quite often see ghostly figures of owls during the dark mornings.
    Once came round a bend to see a mighty beast perched on a fence post, stopped my van but before I could take a pic it was gone, I think that could've been a buzzard.
    Just checked images of a sparrow hawk and it looks very similar to what I encountered 👍
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    At the Watford game, I parked up and walking to the ground I heard the familiar screech of a Parakeet. My 10 year old grandson was amazed to see this bird sitting on a tree branch. We live in Norfolk so pretty rich in bird life but not parakeets. I lived in chislehurst growing up and used to go down to Cooper's school to spot them in the 70s. Clearly they rapidly increased. Lots of them around South London now. 

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