Very interesting food for thought. Those Electric power lines are a worry , had several reports of injuries and deaths to hawks last season. Good reminders and awareness video, Thanks Dave .
Some good reminders there Dave. Plus one on lead in Eagles we see quite a lot of Wedgetails with sub lethal lead levels from eating cadavers left in the field . Sadly quite a few die from it, and yes they dissolve it very fast , a 40g .22 bullet in under ten days for instance. Another one to consider is secondary rodenticide poisoning.
Very informative thank you Dave. I’ve already decided not to fly one of my permissions due to the dangers (road and railway line). I will man her there though to keep the relationship with the farmer but no loose flights
Good video sir. In the US we have the buzzard on steroids. I know at least half a dozen falconers who have lost birds, mostly big falcons, to Red-tails. And they are ubiquitous. But a well known falconer in the UK told me of a friend's Goshawk sitting on a branch in the open taken by single stoop from a Common Buzzard. Awful.
Our common buzzards are half your Redtail ; but my bald eagle has been floored from a soaring glint from common buzzard strikes twice ! Like he’d been shot !
This is what I keep telling my mentor. Hawking is dangerous enough when everything goes right, and we must try to avoid the dangers we can! Finding the balance between risking enough to give my Harris hawk all the chances she can have and being cautious enough to protect her from clear dangers is not easy! I tend to err on the side of caution and look out for the risks. This video was hard to listen to, but so important!
My wife and I seen a sparrowhawk land with prey in it's claws on the lawn in our garden,here in Scotland,it was so cool!👌out of all the birds of prey that I have seen in the wild,the sparrowhawks are my favourite,,,and I'm honestly thinking of getting one!😆is a sparrowhawk a good bird to start with?
There's a transformer near a big church in my old neighborhood, big field with a transformer mounted higher than it's post. And there was a redtail lying under it when I was there last.
@@falconry.davesharpenatureboyand the vultures. It's a wetland in NC, there's a million redtaileds. Coyote's are more in the nearby pine forests / ft. Bragg. Probably hunting deer. See a lot more red foxes.
Ive had the unfortunate experience Of my bird getting electrocudetd on a transformer box Also hitting a big lake and having to swim out to help it out And buildings Also a bird managed to damage its wing in avery Lessons learnt but i try to avoid all of them
