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OutFlying
14-05-2005, 05:24 PM
Photograph of wild spar casting - don't think the racing pigeon was fast enough........ :shock:



SparsTheOne
14-05-2005, 05:28 PM
nice i like lol.


jase.
OutFlying
14-05-2005, 05:33 PM
plucking post
Saker-Clive
14-05-2005, 05:42 PM
I was watching 2 the other afternoon over my way, and was really suprised at the way 1 in particular 'mimicked' the way pigeons fly. I watched it way up in the clouds and needed my bino's at first; then it decided to soar around for several minutes before diving down and skim over the roof tops. It then pitched and soared for a while longer.
Diving again but this time, it pulled out of the stoop and went into pigeon flight!!! A few rapid flaps, then glided up and down; it did this a few times before dropping into a garden a couple of hundred yards away.

This is the first time I have ever seen this behaviour and wondered if anyone else had seen this style of flight before. And before any one questions it, it was definately a spar. :lol:
OutFlying
14-05-2005, 06:57 PM
I've seen them ring up to a dot in the sky and put in a superb stoop but never saw what was at the receiving end.
Adam Barrett
14-05-2005, 07:45 PM
we have a breeding pair of spars in a small patch of wood land on the golf course behind the house-i regularly get the chance to watch them take black birds ect from my back garden-GREAT :lol:
Will try to post some pics shortly
PeregrinesUK
14-05-2005, 07:47 PM
that is a common flight style for spars three flaps and glide.....Wild b.o.p numbers are deffinatly on the rise up in the north east aswell, i watch a pair of peregrines almost daily near durham the female is huge very powerful bird amazing wing beat lovely to see..... well until they take your harris from 200' up to 700' mobbing her
Tim Laycock
14-05-2005, 07:50 PM
i regularly get the chance to watch them take black birds ect from my back garden-GREAT

Lucky b*****d :lol:

Good pic Outflying.
It made me smile :D
Ben C
14-05-2005, 09:03 PM
One day it will be mine.....one day.......a cast consisting of an aplomado and a spar........dreams and dreams.......mmmmmmmmmmm
Tim Laycock
15-05-2005, 01:30 PM
How did you dream this up Benc? :rolleyes: :lol:
Gaz
15-05-2005, 02:09 PM
:weedman: :weedman:
Jastreb
15-05-2005, 04:58 PM
GAZMAAAAAAAAN :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: !
Tim Laycock
15-05-2005, 05:23 PM
The only thing I mix is my drinks :drinkers: :vom:
Shaun Byrne
15-05-2005, 05:59 PM
One day it will be mine.....one day.......a cast consisting of an aplomado and a spar........dreams and dreams.......mmmmmmmmmmm

It would take one big bird to eat those 2 at one sitting :D :D
Tim Laycock
15-05-2005, 06:34 PM
It would take one big bird to eat those 2 at one sitting
:roll: :roll: :mrgreen: :lol: