The long version is really exciting. Beautiful scenes and details, so close to a busy road, I wouldn't have thought that possible. But sparrowhawks are also very hectic themselves. Wonderful work from you, Steve. Thank you for sharing!!!!
Truly excellent stuff here Steve. A great story well told with some stunning footage. Great fieldcraft too. Putting cameras into uber-aware raptor environments without disturbing them is no easy task. As you say, the birds must come first. Well done that man.
@@Glasgowurbanwildlife many thanks Steve. I have flown Sparrowhawks in the past and more recently bred Ravens. I donated my breeding pair of Ravens to the Tower of London (which they are now successfully breeding!) I now keep reptiles.
Wow, really great work !! So much wonderful and cute scenes, the bathing scene - when the baby trys to steal food from between moms feet - the wet baby in the rain 🥰 In the first half, the babies look like perfect little snowflakes 😊 And you've made them a perfect bird bath 👍
First rate production Steven.. I’d nominate you for an award every day ! Terrific story telling and documenting the cycle of life as an accipiter.. 👏👏👏👏👏
Wow ! How she cleaned her feet , before sitting on her eggs 😮 Iwas a Falkners pupil with 13 years old , ferret Boy and flying a rehab kestrel, 45 years later, my love for Raptors is still with me - and footage like yours is a pleasure to watch and LEARN from for me . I would love to set up a Education & Endangered Breeding Raptors or at least work with one of them like i have in the past like with Claus Fenceloff and capitive breeding of the White tailed Eagle for release to the Wild - thanks again for the great video 😊
The Sparrohawk is my favorite bird I like it more than all the prey birds and I respect it too much because it is really the best hunter which you can deal with it and consider it your partner in the hunting trip when you train it you will feel that you did not waist your time for no nothing. Because you will get the best hunter.
Some really fascinating footage, I have watched many wildlife video's, but I do like this one. In particular it is nice not to hear music or voice over, just the sound of nature at it's best... 😃👍
Where I live there is a pair of Marsh harriers they are majestic to watch I don't tell people about them got to watch the people who are in to game love all raptors
A great nature film. The picture quality is excellent and the viewer can directly participate in the life of the sparrow hawk family. Great work. It was a great pleasure to watch the film, thank you. Greetings from Germany
@@Glasgowurbanwildlife Even better is hardly possible. I like this movie very much. The beautiful close-ups, where you can see every detail of the animals, are outstanding. Did you build the water point?
Sparrohawk is the best. But also it is the most difficult bird which you can train it because it is so difficult to make it trust you and stop doubt of you.
Correct me if I am wrong but it appears to be two male's in the video, did the female die or something, because it looks like a male feeding the chicks?
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Just found your video, I live a few miles out of town, have one that visits our garden quite regular, thought it was a kestrel at first, goes for the black collared doves, don’t know if there is a nest nearby.
Appears to be a cousin of both the the Sharp-Shinned and Coopers hawk of America. Big difference though is both American birds get red eyes in adulthood, while your hawk eyes stay greenish-yellow. Another difference is your hawk sounds like a distressed kitten calling for its mother. Our Coopers hawk would eat one of your Sparrow hawks for lunch, I'm afraid. No contest. Our American Kestrel was called the Sparrow Hawk for many years until they wisely changed the name.
Great stuff! Glasgow too . Not far from me. Sparrowhawks are one of my favourite birds. Used to see them fairly often when i was a kid.we even had them in our garden several times. Once i heard an almighty screaming coming from the garden and went to look. On the half circle fence that enclosed our garden there was loads of crows and jackdaws perched on the fence like vultures and on the grass right outside the window was a female sparrowhawk mantling over a still alive starling with a big hole in its chest where the sparrowhawk had eaten a large portion of it alive. My dad bred small finches, canaries and budgies and he had a shed with an aviary attached to it. We got sparrowhawks on it fairly regularly. They nearly killed some of the aviary birds with fear and stress. only a few years ago in a small patch of tree’s in the middle of town i saw a female sparrowhawk mantling over a feral pigeon.they are so cool. Just out if curiosity have you seen any peregrines in Glasgow city centre on the tall buildings? I seen a family of peregrines on a church type steeple a few summers back in my town. It was the noise they were making that gave them away.Its very distinctive noise especially if you have heard it before. I looked up and seen 4 peregrines flapping around the steeple. Then they landed on the steeple and went quiet.after a few minutes the noise started again and 3 flew off the steeple to meet and pester another peregrine coming in towards the steeple carrying some kind of prey item . It was obviously freshly fledged young with the parents. I was so chuffed as I hadn’t seen wild peregrines since the 80’s when they were super rare. I seen many programs with towns that had peregrines breeding in them but never knew they were in my own town. Infact I’m pretty certain no one did as my dad and I are bird daft and keep up with such things and we had never heard it mentioned. We also have ospreys coming in and breeding every season on our local loch. Its great to see.
Thankyou soo much for your comment! Yes I see peregrines regular in Glasgow! they nested on the cathedral last year and were unsuccesfull,I installed a nest tray there 6 months ago but havent had any visits yet! Peregrines can be seen on the art galleries ,glasgow uni too!
@@Glasgowurbanwildlife that is fantastic news. When i was a kid in the 80’s peregrines were so damn rare from persicution but my dad found a pair nesting on a cliff on the old largs road and took us to see them. Iv loved them ever since. He made us swear to keep the secret as he didnt want egg collectors, game keepers or twitchers going up to disturd them. It was very difficult for the young me to keep the secret that the extremely rare and fastest creature on the planet lived so close to our town. Are you aware of any goshawks within strathclyde atall? I’m not asking for exact locations but it would be fantastic to know they are here.i know there is some in Scotland but not sure if theres any in strathclyde
@@Glasgowurbanwildlife you should install some of the cameras you used on the sparrowhawks on the nest tray you provided.i would love to see that. On the cathedral were i saw the peregrines on in my town wouldnt need a nest tray installed as at the top all the way around the top bit of the cathedral theres what looks like a tiny balcony (it isn’t an actual balcony but it looks like one) that goes all the way around and its got a liitle stone balustrade around it and it has a kind of roof over it that would give shelter so the birds would just nest safely down in that however theres many such tall buildings in my town and theres no gaurantee that the cathedral i saw them on was the one they nested on although i suspect it was as its perfect.not just because of the little balcony but because of were its situated. It over looks the busiest part of the town were all the pigeons are. I haven’t spent any time observing that cathederal during breeding season since as i have not had a chance but i really need to. I even thought about getting a drone and flying it up to see if there was any evidence they had been there.like bones etc but it would be extremely difficult to fly a drone in there as there isnt much space between the little roof part and the balustrade. Maybe this season i will get my bins out and park up and watch. I just get paranoid that people walking by will think I’m some kind of stalker watching someones bedroom window with my binoculars 😂
@@happybee7725 hi I already have a live camera on the tray ! That's how I know they haven't been on it! If you join my Facebook page "glasgow urban wildlife" I usually post updates on there ! Regarding drones,that's exactly what I done at cathedral last year,I could see the female sitting on eggs from the drone! You should get yourself down to your local spot and observe as it's that time of year now! Thanks again for your reply.
Wow! What a fabulous capture of nature. I wondered what happened to 3 of the young and now I wonder about the 4th one. Hopefully after all that work at least one survived. And also what of the single egg?
There hans't been any birds at the bird feed recently so I brought it in and gave it an empty and a good clean and refilled it and when I put it back in the tree I watched for a while and a single robin appeared and took a mouthful and sang in the tree and about an hour later out of the blue a Sparrohawk landed improbably and momentarily rested on the edge of the fence and it looked into the window at me fully alive as if to say are you challenging me there, bud?
@@Glasgowurbanwildlife Incredible and with very large keen eyes, however the best bird of prey encounter I've had was near Bentham in North Yorkshire, when I scouted a Short Eared owl from the car and slowly stalked it, over the moors and when I sped up to it, it flew alongside the car at about fifteen feet and looked in.
@@Glasgowurbanwildlife that would be interesting to learn about. I’ve always felt accipiters “reacted” rather than thought their way into catching birds - cf peregrines which seem to be more tactical - it would be interesting to know if they catch/release live prey for the fledglings. Many moons ago, I imprinted a Spar but she was lost too soon, though fortunately very proficient at hunting. We have a pair that hang around the garden and provide a lot of entertainment. Sometimes they make a catch, feet from the French windows, and look at you as surprised as you are looking at them. We hold our breath and cannot move….and then they are gone. Moments you will never forget.
Amazing footage. But I have to ask - how many chicks survived to fledge? That nest looked very precarious and 4 seemed to suddenly become 3 and then maybe just one at the end?
@@Glasgowurbanwildlife So glad to hear that! I've been surveying peregrine nests here and know there's a lot if drama that can happen. You have shared a fabulous record of their early stages and their stunning parents. Thanks again.
Amazing footage! I must ask if you know better which bird species they ate the most? At the beginning there surely were atleast one goldfinch, a few chaffinches, a great tit and probably a chiffchaff or a willow warbler. But what about the bigger birds?
An outstanding production, well done! Such a beautiful bird as well. How close were you finding the plucking points to the nest, if you don’t mind sharing?
Hi Barry thanks for your comments. They usualy have the plucking post around 20-30 meters from nest! This pair preffered to foodpass on a rock on the ground and sometimes higher up in the trees!
@@Glasgowurbanwildlife Hi thanks for your response. Do you know the Kilsyth/Twechar/Barhill area at all? I see sparrowhawks quite often but their nests elude me, every nest I find it seems a buzzard is in it!
When sparrowhawks fledge they branch at first meaning they sit on branches further out so the 4th one was first to fledge and was out of sight on the video
What a awesome video Stevie loved it the chicks are so big now liked the Roe Deer and the blue tits were gorgeous fluttering there noticed they caught one but terrific video heard SH the other day but never saw it sadly what will happen to the egg at the end there.? 🤔
@@jujucattys156 They start to branch out moving to branches further out! eventually they fly! the last chick was still on nest while the others were hanging around on nearby branches!
