02/10/2026
It was a choice this week of leaping Salmon or something much more challenging. So I went to try and photograph one from my bucket list ... a wild Goshawk. These are notoriously difficult to capture, they are woodland birds with short wings and long tails to enable them to perform phenomenal aerobatics through our forests to capture other birds and small mammals. They are very nervous and any noise or the even slightest movement in a hide .... and they are offski !!!
So with a meal on its plucking post I waited and for the first time this week the male made an appearance ... what a magnificent bird and it left one photographer with a huge smile !!
HOWEVER I HAVE JUST FOUND OUT THAT MY BIRD IS ACTUALLY A SPARROWHAWK IMITATING A GOSHAWK ... ITS NOT ALL BAD NEWS AS IT GIVES ME AN EXCUSE TO GO BACK 👍🤣👍