Last year a Goshawk slammed a starling in my yard. Saw the whole thing with my morning coffee. It was beautiful . Got my camera in time to film it turning the prey over and start eating the soft belly and then it must have decided I was a threat as it took it up in the tree top to finish breakfast. You are so lucky to have bird. Thanks for vid.
Have been watching several falconry vids....and I absolutely love this Hawks' adaptation to launching out of the car....you can see the crows going, "Oh shiiiii.....!" They aren't expecting it, have no chance to gain speed or altitude and your hawk has mastered it. It's like a watching a fighter jet close on a turbo prop trying to get off the ground! Thanks for the cool videos!
The world's best filmmakers can tell their story by visuals only. This video has no narrative, it is telling the story by visuals only. It gives me the freedom to listen to the music- if I want to. Thanks for sharing 🤝
Love these birds! I also really love how when driving, they totally know whats up and eagerly look for a target! Hate seeing animals get killed but firing a hawk is so much better and rewarding than firing a gun and taking a young bird with a high mortality rate and schooling it up to be a seasoned hunter when put back is very beneficial for the environment.
I would have subscribed and gave you a like but when you start playing that stupid intro music and changing it up throughout the video, I'm out. Great video but the background music sucks.. leave it out the next time, in my opinion.
Every cloudy day I take my black kite to the park to harass seagulls. He doesn't kill or hurt them he just chases them around. It's illigal to hunt them but it's technically not hunting. He also harasses crows but I don't let him because he's actually killed a few. But I let him hunt eurasian collered doves and phesants.
Hey there hun, its a pretty neat video, but, do u have to scream everytime to get him to do what u want? Also, its a murder.. A hoard of crows, is called a murder..
What a world ! Artificially killed just for the pleasure. Do you know there is real love story in a couple of crows ? Do you how much tenderness exists in each other ? Our cultur is a denial of the relationship's complexity. And in nature, Goshawk shows weak preys, like youngs, sufferers or old individus. Our cultur is a the cultur of the death.. for the death.
I have a crow and magpie problem with my chicken farm. Could use a good crow killer around here. Damn falconry apprenticeships are hard to get these days.
I used to do that back in the day.. I was never without a bird fron 14 till i was 28 after getting married and moving out on my own it was impossible to keep a mews with renting houses and dealing with landlords just can't do falconery till you buy your own house im now in my 40s and really miss flying... Now i know what the older guys talked about at the meets about not having the time or place to have a bird.. Bummer my favorite was imprinted coopers flying ducks at golf courses qual in the desert and of course car hawking everything.. I miss it so much... But society is making life so hard its almost impossible to have any free time to do this...
Super! Thanks a very lot for sharing this video. I am still in a rapture. But, she(i guess it's she) is not a goshawk. What is her flying weight? And what is weight the real goshawk in this video?
Why would it get tired? It's getting free energy from the car launch. It's prey is totally unaware, and at a huge disadvantage. The crows seem to get 5 or 6 wing beats before the falcon is on them. They don't have energy to evade. Easy pickings. Then, the falcon gets a rest as it's carried back to the car to go again.
Fontaine King Were you drunk when you wrote that or what? It makes no sense whatsoever. Colin's statement is simple and true, the goshawk is at a huge advantage in this situation and it's saving a bunch of energy compared to its wild hunting style. He didn't say anything was wrong with that or even imply it. Grow up.
Must be cold driving around during the winter with the window down... :-) Appears that the Crow's barrel roll evasive maneuver is a guaranteed failure for the crow?
film, fantastic,nay, amazing camera work. What i think would make the editing, as amazing as it is, even more awesome is if you did more closer ups with a lot of the action, again i have to state, an awesome piece of filming, worthy of posting to agencies for paid TV work. Definitely one of the best youtube raptor filmwork i have seen in years, really got me shouting at the screen,nothing left to say about this awesome piece of art, Thank you. camera work
Those small little crows in hour area. I'd like to see your bird come over here and attack these huge raven crows that are as big as a beagle hound with sharp curved beaks and will attack relentless in mass when one is attack !
i want to know if goshawk is better than falcon or what,bcuz it looks like goshawk is a great killer hunter machine if it so then why Falcons are bought on a high price in Arab and all over the World,why do Arab prefers Falcons more than Goshawk ,what is the reason behind it please someone tell me i will be highly thankful
Falcons excel at hunting in the open. Goshawks (and all accipters) are built for the woodlands and brush country. Falcons are the fastest hunting birds, but Goshawks have more agility. The Arab lands are generally good falcon territory because there are few trees and no forests to speak of.
Farmers pay the falconers to come and drive away the crows from farm; otherwise, the crows would ruin the farm. Call them "scarecrows". I hate Crows. Crows are killing all the songbirds in my neighborhood; they attack the birds' nesting areas in a pack and take turns eating the babies out of the birds' nests while the birds are trying to defend against the gang of attackers. All the lovely songbirds are now going south inside the bellies of the crows, and they will never come back. Crows are terribly destructive animals. They even kill hawks by harassing them in "tag teams" so they can't hunt and they eventually starve. The huge "bloom" of Crow population is *UNNATURAL...* the Crows are like Rats; they are highly successful opportunistic parasites that benefit from human activity and settlement. Like humans, they are a scourge upon the wildlife.
You trained it to kill crows? That's not a match for that kind of hawk,,. But I got a better one for you... Where I like.. We got bald eagles and many red tail hawks... I hope you hawk could meet one of those in it's pass.. ...
