The Birdwatcher's Year by Richard Williamson

Author:Richard Williamson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2013-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

Woodland

JULY HAS ALWAYS been known as the ‘Silent Month’ in the countryside, as many birds start to moult. Years ago schoolchildren used to collect these feathers and stick them into books – a lot was learnt about birds in that way.

HOBBY FALCONS ARE now rearing their young in southern England. They will bring back solid protein in the form of young Swallows, Martins, Larks and Pipits and also large insects. The male sometimes makes an aerial pass of food to the female or he will land in a nearby tree and call her off the nest to come and eat. A parent bird returning to the nest may ‘stoop’ from a great height straight to the ground, only pulling back up at the very last split second.

CARRION CROWS SOMETIMES join forces into huge family flocks, which might make you think that they are Rooks instead. As many as 300 Crows can be recorded together now in one large flock known as a ‘murder of Crows’.

MAGPIES OFTEN MIMIC Buzzards and Sparrowhawks to warn their young of these predators. Hungry juvenile Magpies sit in the shade in deep cover, calling continuously and raucously for food. The adults lose their tail feathers from now on and may look very odd as they flutter across the sky.

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