The Elusive Sparrowhawk (Long Version)

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!!!!

No no that's 6 chicks but bird activities location is comparing 😅

I have looked familiar this vedeo

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.

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.

Awesome film!!! I’m curious, was she only able to raise the 1 chick out of 4?

You can tell you put time and dedication into this ! 👍

Hi Steve, fantastic filming and editing. Were you able to observe any parental teaching of hunting after they fledged?

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 😊

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Fantastic wee movie I really enjoyed it. I know how hard it can be to find and photograph these beautiful wee hawks, well done.

Great capture and hard work ❤

This is truly top drawer camera work ! Fantastic to see this beautiful, elusive bird.

Thank you so much.
Absolutely fantastic footage.

At one point theres 4 chicks and then next frame theres 3. Any Idea what happened to the 4th?

Great film about a great bird 👏👏👏

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?

Great captures and presentation❤‍🔥Thank you

Steve not sure how I missed this 👍 but anyway, fabulous and such an accurate record of this family 👍 amazing pal.👌

She's very colourful for a female ...absolutely stunning...excellent video

Hello, who did ring the chicks?

Sparrowhawk is cool hunter

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She cares for all involved...I'm still here loving living enjoying 😉 😍 ✨️ 💕 these birds are small but mighty

Amazing work indeed

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.

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

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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.

Nice video

How can you get this spectacular footage?! It's incredible well done man! 10/10

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

Awesome ...some time and effort gone into this ...thanks for sharing

a great watch but couldnt quite work out how many survived? did any

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?

she's a bada** mother ...
thx

Great video 👍 Did all the chicks fledge? and was that an infertile egg that failed to hatch? Many thanks 🙏🏻

Woow what a stunning footage!!. Both parents are excellent hunter, all babies are survives. Thank you for sharing the video

I didn’t know they build nests.

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.

Einfach wundervolle Aufnahmen.....

Excelente vídeo!

Amazing work! I was delighted to see this, and get to know this part of their life. Thank you so much for making this available!

What happens rest the chicks ?

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Как же приятно видеть, как последнего птенца выкармливают родители.

Not sure if that is the male or female hunting but they don’t play around.

Wo sind die anderen 3 geblieben?Am sonstigen war interessant.

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