Post by accipiter on Jul 18, 2022 18:08:59 GMT
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. – Henry David Thoreau.
It’s been one of those days when things suddenly fall in to place, for example I’m still writing my book and now reached the chapter on non-breeding Sparrowhawks – floaters. I’ve also been trying to find any films on this without much luck, presumably because these non- territorial birds are just too secretive therefore too difficult to film. Unlike those whom are breeding where it’s only too obvious by their behaviour, often on show for all to see.
However, I have after a number of years found and taken photos of these birds and their roosting sites, both male and females, indicated by splattering of nitrogenous waste on leaves and the woodland floor; - (whitewash slicing’s.) Also feather remains of both prey taken and moulted feathers of these particular roosting Sparrowhawks.
I won’t go in any more details here as to how, where, and why, for obvious reasons other than to say it’s been a very exhausting number of years. What’s more I’m still here which is a miracle in itself after collecting all this data on sparrowhawks, and clocking up more travel miles than Phileas Fogg ever did.
Alan
It’s been one of those days when things suddenly fall in to place, for example I’m still writing my book and now reached the chapter on non-breeding Sparrowhawks – floaters. I’ve also been trying to find any films on this without much luck, presumably because these non- territorial birds are just too secretive therefore too difficult to film. Unlike those whom are breeding where it’s only too obvious by their behaviour, often on show for all to see.
However, I have after a number of years found and taken photos of these birds and their roosting sites, both male and females, indicated by splattering of nitrogenous waste on leaves and the woodland floor; - (whitewash slicing’s.) Also feather remains of both prey taken and moulted feathers of these particular roosting Sparrowhawks.
I won’t go in any more details here as to how, where, and why, for obvious reasons other than to say it’s been a very exhausting number of years. What’s more I’m still here which is a miracle in itself after collecting all this data on sparrowhawks, and clocking up more travel miles than Phileas Fogg ever did.
Alan
