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| Red footed falcon |
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| Country park maptp Mapaption |
On the 6 August Rhodie and I went to Chatterley Whitfield
Heritage Country Park near Stoke on Trent, to see the Red footed Falcon.
Like most recent and popular sightings, when we arrived
there, there were a clump of birders there scanning the area for the Falcon.
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| Police warning - your on camera |
We noticed a few police notices tied to the fence, warning
people from refraining from feeding and attempting to net the bird and that it
was a protected species. Which was quite disturbing to see that people would
actually try and capture any wild bird.
We didn't have to wait long before one of them beckoned us
to join him further along the road, as he had spotted the bird on a fence post
overlooking the side gardens of the ex colliery museum.
It was a sweet looking juvenile and wasn't perturbed by the
onlookers one bit and occasionally flew down onto the grass picking up worms
and slugs then back onto the fence post to eat them.
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| Fluffy! |
At one time a Kestrel joined it on a couple of posts further
away and both seemed quite at ease with each other even though encroaching on
each other's territory.
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| Kestrel |
We didn't stay all that long as it was a good and easy
sighting .... always nice to see nature that close up .
1 comment:
Lovely photies Neil.
The police notice was warranted, someone tried to kidnap it on 24/07/15.(Trying to make out it belonged to them!)
Laura
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