The World is a wonderful place thread.

Eccles Blue said:
My eldest moved to Penmaenmawr when he was made redundant in Warrington and I love going to visit. Not been this year yet because of my health but hoping to go soon. The views from his windows are of the Great Orme on one side and Puffin Island and the Menai Straits and at the back onto the hills. I love it. :-)
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Hope you are able to get there soon :)
 
dennishasdoneit said:
I spotted a Goshawk ,out in the countryside, on the way to 5 a side footy at Matlock Derbyshire 2 weeks ago. I was absolutely gob smacked, having only seem this secretive bird of prey twice before in my entire life .it was perched upon a silver horse box out in a field, surprising as id never seen this bird away from the covrr6 of a wood / forest before.

I was buzzing for the next few days and texted as many folk as possible that I knew would be interested, good news should be spread !
I love nature, birds in particular , esp Birds of prey ,for their beauty, dexterity and hunting methods .

The World is indeed a wonderful place when nature shoes itself , for those with eyes to see....
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They are the most beautiful birds. We have their smaller cousins regularly launching attack sorties in our garden. You are lucky to have seen them thrice. I have never had that privilege. Hopefully one day.
 
Marklr said:
I went hill climbing and hiking last week...DESPITE my Long COVID. I was completely knackered, but better than I usually am.
Spent some days down at my mums in Wales last week (looking after her house and cat while she went away) and went for a good walk with the missus to a village called Knucklas across the hills.
I'd heard there was a castle there, so we went looking for it. Through some woods, across an orchard, through more woods, up some big steps....paths that were barely visible. ALL uphill. Lynn gave up, but I carried on up...I wanted to see the castle. I got to the last part but collapsed, out of breath. So I crawled! I was determined! Anyway...I made it, but, guess what? There was no fckin castle! This was it: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3637898,-3.1035931,3a,75y,220h,110t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPpT6znpqWEsBiwjf0GEFo6exY0bAG3vb-i-dOG!2e10!3e11!6s//lh5.ggpht.com/p/AF1QipPpT6znpqWEsBiwjf0GEFo6exY0bAG3vb-i-dOG=w900-h600-k-no-pi-20-ya81-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

So glad that I made it...the views were well worth it. Made me feel ALIVE. The ruins of the castle were used to build the nearby viaduct. It's just a mound now. Back in sunny Salford now...recovering. Painful joints and muscles!
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Well done mate. That was quite something given what you are going through. Are these the green shoots of recovery? Fingers crossed that they are.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
They are the most beautiful birds. We have their smaller cousins regularly launching attack sorties in our garden. You are lucky to have seen them thrice. I have never had that privilege. Hopefully one day.
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Love Sparrowhawks too. Prob my fav British bird. I've had the privilege of handling a wild one. One really really hot day a few summer's ago I was out walking and came across a juvenile which I imagined had fell out of the next, or fell from its 1st flight ..it was on the ground and was clearly weak and I imagined would soon die of thirst or fall prey to a fox or the Crows. It was situated on the edge of a wood.

Its parent didn't appear to be anywhere close,and I was mindful of the rule that you should leave fallen birds where they are as parents would come back for them....but it's current posistion ,on some bracken,close to a path was not good. After much deliberation ,discounting taking it back to the car for water or taking it to a friend who has nursed many wild creatures back to full health,( it would not have made the journey and prob died of shock )... I decided to try and change its posistion for the better. There were some bushes behind it and I thought if I could get the youngster to a safer place .....the hawk must have read my mind for as I picked it up carefully and made for the higher bush behind , baby hawk simply mustered every ounce of strength it had left In its body and flew out of my hand into said bush, off the ground...and hopefully to safety.

Quite an experience..!
 
dennishasdoneit said:
I spotted a Goshawk ,out in the countryside, on the way to 5 a side footy at Matlock Derbyshire 2 weeks ago. I was absolutely gob smacked, having only seem this secretive bird of prey twice before in my entire life .it was perched upon a silver horse box out in a field, surprising as id never seen this bird away from the cover of a wood / forest before.

I was buzzing for the next few days and texted as many folk as possible that I knew would be interested, good news should be spread !
I love nature, birds in particular , esp Birds of prey ,for their beauty, dexterity and hunting methods .

The World is indeed a wonderful place when nature shoes itself , for those with eyes to see....
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I had one as a fairly regular visitor a couple of years ago, watched it take a dove off of one of my feeders. It flew a cross the road into some pine trees, without thinking I walked across the road to get a better look. I got within ten feet of it, we got eye contact and it dropped the dove which fell limply down through the branches. I kicked myself for messing with it but a few hours later it had collected its dinner and gone. Amazing how big they are us close
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Well done mate. That was quite something given what you are going through. Are these the green shoots of recovery? Fingers crossed that they are.
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I suffered for it but yeah..I've only had a few crashes since. I just try and do whatever...avoid the depression. Thanks, mate. How's your son?
 
Marklr said:
I suffered for it but yeah..I've only had a few crashes since. I just try and do whatever...avoid the depression. Thanks, mate. How's your son?
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Surprisingly calm. He just had his contract renewed for a year so he is very relieved at that. Mentally he is very strong. Physically no worse so that is a blessing. He controls his crashes by not doing very much physically at all. He has invested heavily in his home IT and has big wrap around screens. So when he’s not working he’s gaming. His Gp remains as much use as a chocolate teapot. Stay safe mate.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
Love Sparrowhawks too. Prob my fav British bird. I've had the privilege of handling a wild one. One really really hot day a few summer's ago I was out walking and came across a juvenile which I imagined had fell out of the next, or fell from its 1st flight ..it was on the ground and was clearly weak and I imagined would soon die of thirst or fall prey to a fox or the Crows. It was situated on the edge of a wood.

Its parent didn't appear to be anywhere close,and I was mindful of the rule that you should leave fallen birds where they are as parents would come back for them....but it's current posistion ,on some bracken,close to a path was not good. After much deliberation ,discounting taking it back to the car for water or taking it to a friend who has nursed many wild creatures back to full health,( it would not have made the journey and prob died of shock )... I decided to try and change its posistion for the better. There were some bushes behind it and I thought if I could get the youngster to a safer place .....the hawk must have read my mind for as I picked it up carefully and made for the higher bush behind , baby hawk simply mustered every ounce of strength it had left In its body and flew out of my hand into said bush, off the ground...and hopefully to safety.

Quite an experience..!
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We’re lucky to have a place near us that’s sole purpose is to care for injured raptors, I took a tiny American Kestrel there one time, they got it better and released it back into the wild
https://tetonraptorcenter.org/
 
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