Chris Packhams Animals Guide to Britain tonight features the phantom of the woods, the goshawk. I'm sure it will be full of other interesting creatures as well, definitely worth a watch! BBC2 8-9 PM
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Certainly will be watching that!
Anything Chris presents is worth watching in my view, top bloke.
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Thanks for the heads up Ian
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Ian H said: Chris Packhams Animals Guide to Britain tonight features the phantom of the woods, the goshawk. I'm sure it will be full of other interesting creatures as well, definitely worth a watch! BBC2 8-9 PM
Thanks Ian
I will definitely be watching this. I assume it might be coming from the New Forest?
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Wasn't Ellie impressive.
In many ways I'm glad they used a falconers bird, as it would have been pretty short section otherwise.
Even Attenborough's Life of birds only had a tiny section of usable footage, in the meat eaters episode, they show a juvenile hunting rats on the forest floor, last's around 30sec and the budget for that series was mega.
mpiekp said: Wasn't Ellie impressive. In many ways I'm glad they used a falconers bird, as it would have been pretty short section otherwise. Even Attenborough's Life of birds only had a tiny section of usable footage, in the meat eaters episode, they show a juvenile hunting rats on the forest floor, last's around 30sec and the budget for that series was mega.
Yes she was amazing to watch her agility was certainly remarkable I for one thoroughly enjoyed the whole programme I'm even tempted to try squirrel pie lol
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It was absolutely blooming fantastic !!!
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Just dawned on me, am sure he said they can take down prey twice the size of them?
That doesn't leave much off the menu
mpiekp said: Just dawned on me, am sure he said they can take down prey twice the size of them? That doesn't leave much off the menu
Well I understood the name Goshawk came from Goosehawk,so yes pretty big prey.
yep, I figure in terms of wildlife, only eagles, eagle owl and deer would be beyond them.
Bet they have preferences, my local ones have a penchant for corvid (mainly magpies)
mpiekp said: Wasn't Ellie impressive.
Indeed she was.
I would love to meet Ellie in the same way that Chris Packham did