Interesting little facts...

[Ian]

The peregrine is renowned for its speed. It can reach over 320 km/h (200 mph) during its characteristic hunting stoop (high-speed dive), making it the fastest member of the animal kingdom. According to a National Geographic TV program, the highest measured speed of a peregrine falcon is 389 km/h (242 mph).

I met a guy training a Perigrine on the park. He let it sit on my arm and it was very light but he said it had broken his wrist twice just from the sheer speed

(I cant remember the full story but his ownership was legal, registered etc.)

[Mr. Dazzle]

If you move towards a wall halving the distance for each move, you will never actually get to the wall. You're always only 50% closer than the prior position

This is why my posters of Zeno keep falling down. Whenever I push a pin towards the wall it just gets closer and closer, halving the distance each time but never touching.

[Rockburner]

The peregrine is renowned for its speed. It can reach over 320 km/h (200 mph) during its characteristic hunting stoop (high-speed dive), making it the fastest member of the animal kingdom. According to a National Geographic TV program, the highest measured speed of a peregrine falcon is 389 km/h (242 mph).

I met a guy training a Perigrine on the park. He let it sit on my arm and it was very light but he said it had broken his wrist twice just from the sheer speed

(I cant remember the full story but his ownership was legal, registered etc.)

Eh? Was he having it attack something in his hand? They only fly at very high speed when they're attacking. Having said that i think their normal flight is pretty rapid.

[Horse]

Having said that i think their normal flight is pretty rapid.

And can be loud too!

[Ian]

Eh? Was he having it attack something in his hand? They only fly at very high speed when they're attacking. Having said that i think their normal flight is pretty rapid.

Honestly I don't remember quizzing him about, I as rather wowed with the magnificent bird on my arm!

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At that time I was working very close to Derby Cathedral (Perigrine web cams here https://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/p/our-webcams.html with chicks!)
Very loud Drove you crackers with all the screeching

[Ian]

Eh? Was he having it attack something in his hand? They only fly at very high speed when they're attacking. Having said that i think their normal flight is pretty rapid.

Honestly I don't remember quizzing him about, I as rather wowed with the magnificent bird on my arm!

And can be loud too!

At that time I was working very close to Derby Cathedral (Perigrine web cams here https://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/p/our-webcams.html with chicks!)
Very loud Drove you crackers with all the screeching

[Mr. Dazzle]

The Japanese name for a Peregrine Falcon is.....Hyabusa.

Suzuki owners love to point out that Hyabusas hunt Blackbirds, but loads of fast stuff in Japan is called Hyabusa. Just like there are loads of 'Eagle' or 'Falcon' things in Europe and America.

[Noggin]

The Japanese name for a Peregrine Falcon is.....Hyabusa.

Suzuki owners love to point out that Hyabusas hunt Blackbirds, but loads of fast stuff in Japan is called Hyabusa. Just like there are loads of 'Eagle' or 'Falcon' things in Europe and America.

When one of the Blackbird club guys got a Busa, the info was often repeated that the Busa is a Blackbird eating hawk

TBF, I've seen a few Busa's beaten up by Blackbirds over the years

[Rockburner]

We have a Sparrowhawk that feeds in our garden sometimes, I posted a picture of it here a while ago, Mrs Potter feeds the birds twice a day with mealworms and other stuff she buys for them, so she's created a perfect environment for the Sparrowhawk to nip down occasionally and grab a Blackbird.

We also have a Barn Owl that hangs around but I've only seen it once, other people from the village seem to manage to get pictures of him all the time but I seem to miss him, we've got a massive Oak tree in the garden and the bigger birds like that, but the owl doesn't, he's more likely to be seen on a fence post along the road somewhere just sitting there not giving a hoot (:lol: ).

We've had a sparrow hawk here - but didn't see it last year (although there was a few days of unaccountable silences in the garden).

We have a Barn owl who patrols the field and we often see it at dusk. I do love seeing all the wildlife around here - we had 7 Buzzards circling something just this morning.

[Count Steer]

We have a Sparrowhawk that feeds in our garden sometimes, I posted a picture of it here a while ago, Mrs Potter feeds the birds twice a day with mealworms and other stuff she buys for them, so she's created a perfect environment for the Sparrowhawk to nip down occasionally and grab a Blackbird.

We also have a Barn Owl that hangs around but I've only seen it once, other people from the village seem to manage to get pictures of him all the time but I seem to miss him, we've got a massive Oak tree in the garden and the bigger birds like that, but the owl doesn't, he's more likely to be seen on a fence post along the road somewhere just sitting there not giving a hoot (:lol: ).

We've had a sparrow hawk here - but didn't see it last year (although there was a few days of unaccountable silences in the garden).

We have a Barn owl who patrols the field and we often see it at dusk. I do love seeing all the wildlife around here - we had 7 Buzzards circling something just this morning.

Hopefully the rotting corpses of the s that stole your Puch.

We had a sparrow hawk that used to take birds off the feeder. I found it on the lawn one day with a blue tit under foot. It looked at me as much as if to say 'You want my lunch? C'mon if you think yer 'ard enough'.

(I took the feeder down, it was getting like a fly-thru McDonalds).

[Rockburner]

We have a Sparrowhawk that feeds in our garden sometimes, I posted a picture of it here a while ago, Mrs Potter feeds the birds twice a day with mealworms and other stuff she buys for them, so she's created a perfect environment for the Sparrowhawk to nip down occasionally and grab a Blackbird.

We also have a Barn Owl that hangs around but I've only seen it once, other people from the village seem to manage to get pictures of him all the time but I seem to miss him, we've got a massive Oak tree in the garden and the bigger birds like that, but the owl doesn't, he's more likely to be seen on a fence post along the road somewhere just sitting there not giving a hoot (:lol: ).

We've had a sparrow hawk here - but didn't see it last year (although there was a few days of unaccountable silences in the garden).

We have a Barn owl who patrols the field and we often see it at dusk. I do love seeing all the wildlife around here - we had 7 Buzzards circling something just this morning.

Hopefully the rotting corpses of the s that stole your Puch.

We had a sparrow hawk that used to take birds off the feeder. I found it on the lawn one day with a blue tit under foot. It looked at me as much as if to say 'You want my lunch? C'mon if you think yer 'ard enough'.

(I took the feeder down, it was getting like a fly-thru McDonalds).

I wish..



I think the trick with the bird feeders is to make sure they're under the branches, so the hawk doesn't have an easy attack vector (or keep them out in the clear: depends on which bird you want to feed really.... )

[Ian]

It may be possible for a bird of that size to impact with enough force to break his wrist if it’s travelling fast enough, I’d have to figure the maths out, but the bird would almost certainly come off worse in an exchange of energy of that nature with something bigger and heavier than itself. I’ve heard stories of them severely hurting themselves when hitting prey, so hitting a blokes arm with enough force to break it will surely injure the falcon also?

Like I said I didn't quiz him I was in awe at holding a falcon.

I do remember him saying he'd kept other birds so maybe he was waving a sausage while riding a Hyabusa and that bird broke its neck on impact

Or maybe it was a swan? Ask anybody's Mum, everyone knows they break your arm

[Mr. Dazzle]

everyone knows they break your arm

Or blow up your house.

[KungFooBob]

Wasn't there an urban myth that went along with the arm breaking thing that a Pike could kill a Swan, or did I dream that?

[Horse]

Wasn't there an urban myth that went along with the arm breaking thing that a Pike could kill a Swan, or did I dream that?

"Don't tell them, Pike!"

[Count Steer]

Hopefully the rotting corpses of the s that stole your Puch.

We had a sparrow hawk that used to take birds off the feeder. I found it on the lawn one day with a blue tit under foot. It looked at me as much as if to say 'You want my lunch? C'mon if you think yer 'ard enough'.

(I took the feeder down, it was getting like a fly-thru McDonalds).

I wish..



I think the trick with the bird feeders is to make sure they're under the branches, so the hawk doesn't have an easy attack vector (or keep them out in the clear: depends on which bird you want to feed really.... )

It used to hang under a garden arch, but they're pretty agile in flight.

The racing pigeon blokes used to hate them. Birds would get back from a race, knackered, and sparrow hawks would pick them off the landing in front of the sheds if they weren't in attendance. That's full grown racing pigeons.

(If there's a spate of raptor poisonings in an area, have a look around for pigeon sheds as well as gamekeepers ).

[Ian]

Wasn't there an urban myth that went along with the arm breaking thing that a Pike could kill a Swan, or did I dream that?

Ducks I heard. Sneak up underneath and pull them under.
Pike are rather tasty

[v8-powered]

We have a Sparrowhawk that feeds in our garden sometimes, I posted a picture of it here a while ago, Mrs Potter feeds the birds twice a day with mealworms and other stuff she buys for them, so she's created a perfect environment for the Sparrowhawk to nip down occasionally and grab a Blackbird.

We also have a Barn Owl that hangs around but I've only seen it once, other people from the village seem to manage to get pictures of him all the time but I seem to miss him, we've got a massive Oak tree in the garden and the bigger birds like that, but the owl doesn't, he's more likely to be seen on a fence post along the road somewhere just sitting there not giving a hoot (:lol: ).

We've had a sparrow hawk here - but didn't see it last year (although there was a few days of unaccountable silences in the garden).

We have a Barn owl who patrols the field and we often see it at dusk. I do love seeing all the wildlife around here - we had 7 Buzzards circling something just this morning.

We have an owl of some description that loiters around our place - excuse the shite image but was getting a bit dark!

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Get a lot of Buzzards and Kites milling around too, often getting harassed by Crows

[Buckaroo]

Stone the crows

[Rockburner]

We have an owl of some description that loiters around our place - excuse the shite image but was getting a bit dark!

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Holy crap.... well - I'm not sleeping for the next week...