Magnificent Goshawk Catches Rat Then Toys With It | Discover Wildlife | Robert E Fuller
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- A goshawk visited the pond at Ash Wood for a dip - it's the first time I've seen one here. Watch it catch a rat, then toy with it and keep watching to get a sense of scale - it's about four times the weight of a sparrowhawk!
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GOSHAWK
This is a juvenile female. You can tell by the vertical markings on her breast and the way she flicks up her prey and catches it! This is how they practise their hunting techniques. Female goshawks are slightly bigger than buzzards and a lot larger than sparrowhawks!
GOSHAWK BATHING
This footage gives you an amazing intimate view of the goshawk bathing. I hope it visits again!
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As a retired teacher, I knew too, EXACTLY what this youngster was doin', by golly! I've seen it a million times. Just like I experienced with EVERY one of my students, saw them puzzle and practice and master the skill at hand, alone even though others present; was overjoyed, with them, when I saw their new skills and power, first evident and revealed to us both, still awesome and new to them, over and over again. Humans and animals are SO related; much more than our egos and common knowledge allow. We are SO animals too, I think. Cheers for this heartwarmer.
Yep we try to think of humans as separate but we are so similar
@@RobertEFuller Actually, my good man, I find the distinction between man and animal a misleading mistake of great size, arbitrary, rather subjective, egotistical distinction, mistakenly made by relatively, heavily unnatural supernatural religious, the unforeseeen and unimaginably BAD consequences misleads us more than we realize, denies us due understanding and growing affinity with the ONLY OTHER lifeforms in existence, imho and insights about overall nature - all due to the WILDLY bogus UNNATURAL POV of supernaturalist-based reality. I think the ancient error produced a predilection to build entirely artificial and unnatural societies, values, morals and mores that are so devoid of reality they produced ALL the environmentally unsustainable practices that doom us now. Its a BIG mistake, the consequences of believing entirely false data to the extent we have.
Actually birds dont cry tears of emotion but they cry tears then threatened.
How extraordinary to see a Goshawk. Thank you for showing the differences from the similar marked raptors. She liked the "Bath n Breakfast" ... she'll be back. 💖💕😊😃
Yeah never seen this bird before.. it looks like a mix between a hawk and a chicken :) What a stunning bird! By the way, the videos on the playlist on my channel might interest some people!
Wow, what a stunning bird of prey, amazing to watch it learning. I loved the way you split the screen to show us size differences, that was brilliant…..thanks Robert xxxx
This was amazing to watch live when it happened. She is a stunning raptor, isn't she 🥰
You know she's a charismatic bird when she dances for the camera mere seconds into the video 😂❤️
This few minutes of superb video hides the many hours spent capturing these precious events. Lovely stuff Robert, and I am grateful for you sharing it with us.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
She's gorgeous.
I have enjoyed your channel immensely, Mr. Fuller.
Thank you, for sharing your world, of birds and critters with us.
I am following the Ash Wood Rat Stream. So that‘s what happened to Kenny. I always wondered why he never returned to the burrow
Amazing how she can just flatten it almost with her talons would love to know the power of those. She learnt a good lesson waiting above a pond for thirsty animals
The force of her landing on a mice is the equivalent of a person being hit by a car or truck. Learned this by watching a documentary on Owls 🦉.
When you grip your knee hard until it hurts that's about 90psi, the Goshawk and Osprey are 400 psi and Golden Eagle 700psi, good luck little mammals.
@@pennsydude9723 correction: a *flying* car or truck
@@nearestyoutube there is no flying cars you silly sausage 😱
@@noretreat_nosurrender6892 🌭😜
0:03 i love the way they dip their feathers in the water like they're dancing 🤣🤣
Beautiful majestic bird. May she live a long & happy life... well away from scummy gamekeepers & others that wish her harm. Nature at its most beautiful right there.
0:11 I love how a little critter was like, “Scamper away while she isn’t looking!”
I heard a Goshawk calling from thick woodland whilst walking on Stockton Common near York a few weeks ago. I tried to find a nest or see the birds, but couldn't get into the area where the call was coming from. Given that Robert's gallery is only about 10Km from there as the crow flies and knowing how rare these birds are, I wonder if this could be a chick from a successful nest there which is looking for a new territory.
Magnificent bird
Incredible footage. It’s not everyday you see a goshawk considering how elusive and rare they are
Yes I saw 👀 the hawk less than 1km from the wood the day before and then it came to my little pond amazing
They're not as rare as people think, just very secretive, I live in the Cotswolds and there's quite a few around here, when you see one and you're used to seeing regular Sparrowhawk, there is no mistaking a Goshawk, it is definitely a Wow moment. Although every time I see one it's very early in the morning. I don't think I've seen one in the daytime.
Thank you for posting this! This year was the first time I watched a Goshawk cam, watching the chicks hatch to fledge. I have literally just come back in after walking in on a Sparrowhawk in my garden that had just pounced on a Ferral pigeon! I am so glad you showed us the difference in the size between the two birds. Nice video 😊
Wow the food just serves itself while she's bathing. That kestrel is living the high life
Going off point here but I work in the north sea and seen a juvenile white tailed sea eagle a few years back. I took loads of photos and sent them in to energy voice and the North Sea bird club page. They said it was the first ever recorded sighting but it was a phenomenal size and the biggest bird of prey in England I believe even bigger than a golden eagle
Sounds a great sighting
What a fabulous video! I saw her bathing but not catching and playing with the rat. Thanks for the size comparisons, Robert. 🙏💚
Oh yes! I remember that wonderful day! You are wonderful in your story voice over! Thank you so very much! @Robert E Fuller ❤️🍊🥰🙏🏻🦅 forgot to say thank you for comparing her to a sparrowhawk as I have no idea how small a sparrowhawk really is until you did that! Thank you once again!
Yes also thank you for that Robert
Female sparrowhawk is bigger than kestrel, though not by much.
It was fabulous to watch live. What a beautiful bird.
My first thought was, "stop playing with your food!" 😅 I really enjoy watching birds bathing either in water or having a dust bath. I filled a plastic bird seed tub with rocks and branches and it's used regularly by all sorts of our feathered friends. It's too far away from the house to get a good look at its visitors, but I love seeing the little splashes of water when the small birds are showering.
It's like when people have popcorn, they throw it up and catch it in their mouths.
"How often do I have to repeat myself? Don't play with your food, hun!"
"Mom... I'm practicing hunting techniques."
My house crest features a Goshawk on the hand, beautiful birds and a great video!
I did watch this live but enjoyed this video very much ! Such a beautiful bird the gishawk! Nice the way it caught the rat ! Thanks for sharing ! 🥰🤗
Great video!! She may be a juvenile but she knows how to get her food! Thank you for the window into the wonderful world of our birds of prey!!
She's beautiful! This summer, I made a water feature for the wildlife in my garden, and I'm having soooo much fun watching all of the visitors!
At last the video I've been waiting for. Well done REF and Team.
Stunning footage combined with all your preparation to be able to capture such fantastic footage Robert is just excellent. Well done and keep them coming.
What a video, you had me with your music choice which was wonderful. I feel I need to say how our human interpretation is different from animal reality(at least for the most part) in that when animals do things we consider mean, is actually done without malice and more logical in their development. For me this gives a greater appreciation of their lives.
What a great bit of filming, I’ve seen other young predators practicing with prey but never birds. Brilliant!
Imagine you are relaxing in your favourite spot and then your favourite food fearless comes and you have awesome time eating it and relaxing
What a chilled bird
Absolutely brilliant, we don’t get Goshawks on the Isle of Man 🇮🇲 unfortunately
Do you get Red Kites or Buzzards?
Hope to see more of her too, she's beautiful and nice to see her learning process ❣
Just shows the ecosystem there is working so well. Water, plant life, prey, predators in the same habitat. Just as nature intended. Wonderful vid. Thanks.
I always love watching birds have a little wash. Sometimes I put on "Splish Splash I was taking a Bath." By Bobby Darren over the top, heh it is quite funny.
The bathing towards the end is just soooo cute 😍
FABULOUS...thanks for sharing...birds of prey are truly one of nature's great gifts...
That is amazing to see one so far down here. They are something to see at least once in your lifetime I think. Our countryside misses these majestic birds.
Rigajykra, look at bird bath
All what you show is coming from your heart ❤️
What a lovely sighting! I wonder if she's just passing through or if she'll decide to hang around. As a juvenile, I'm guessing she doesn't have an established territory yet. It'd be intetesting to see her integrate into the ecosystem here!
She is just passing through most lightly the wood is two small and the wrong type of trees 🌲 they like Larch or conifer trees to nest in which there are some close by
Gorgeous! The range of Goshawks ends just short of where I live in North Carolina & I've never seen one in real life! We do have some Red Shouldered Hawks (or buzzards, as y'all more correctly call them 😏) that have taken up residence behind our backyard though! There was a juvenile that spent some time stalking a chipmunk a few feet outside my window the other day and I was so captivated by it!
Oh yes,Robert.
I did enjoyed this video so well.
I do love hawks in every kind.
Great thanks for the buzzard in it 2.
That's one of my totem-birds.
You definitely can see the hawk play and train with a throw and catch.
You're posting amazing videos on your channel.
Thank you,Sir.
In kind regard 2 you,
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Thanks 😊
What a beautiful bird! 💛
today I saw a sparrowhawk and peregrine falcon having a fight in the air. thought I was lucky just to see either but together swooping was amazing
Great sighting it’s amazing what’s out there if you just spend time watching 👍
hOlY cRaP, Robert! A goshawk! So beautiful! It's a privelege to have one there. The size comparison was also great. However should the barn owls, the tawny owls and the kestrels- especially the kestrels- worry about having an apex predator so close to their nests? Goshawks are prolific hunters of other smaller raptors. What do you think? Would it a pose a threat for the "stars" of the channel?
definitely a threat, goshawks are the f-22s of the bird world, one of the most agile flyers of all raptors
Yes, it's a definite threat. That female sparrowhawk is larger than a female kestrel yet look how the goshawk dwarfs it. The kestrels and owls have no defence and goshawks actively prey on smaller raptors. But it is a native bird and all these species co-evolved so they have survived together over time. The difference here is that the absence of goshawks in recent years, and assistance from REF, has probably allowed the local population of other raptors to proliferate more. If goshawks start moving back into the area this may start to get thinned out a bit!
@@debeee It would not have been trying to drive the sparrowhawk away, it would have been trying to kill it. But sparrowhawks are very hard to catch as they also accipiters. Hovering kestrels and slow quartering barn owls not so. The buzzards won't be concerned - they are slower but more powerful, they'll probably wait for her to catch something they can't and then steal it off her. She's a woodland hunter, they are hunters of the open.
Didnt know they would predate on kestrals, these are getting rarer unfortunatly, il never forget the film kes and the mean farmer or game keeper, they was under threat then from poisoning and egg theft, im sure it still goes on today, dont know why sparrow hawks are not the same, they must mate prolifically and have bigger broods that survive as you definitely see more than kestrals or less its down to hunting techniques as in hovering why we see them more....
Amazing that you were able to capture this on video. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing, my daughter and I have been lucky to get pictures of three different kinds of hawk this summer!
Wow totally blessed to have these visitors to your pond
It’s been very dry so my little pond has been very busy place
Robert, everything you do is a work of art! You inspire! ❤
What a fabulous capture - thank you!
I had the pleasure to witness magnificent greater spotted eagle today. Quite possibly it was my first and last that I will ever witness.
Fabulous footage! Thank you for sharing.
Some years ago I had a haggard goshawk come into my yard and eyeball my young cat. Luckily our little cat saw the goshawk approach and alight in a tree right above her, about 20 ft away. Our little cat was just paralyzed with fear until she couldn't stand it anymore. She just bolted on the tips of her toes towards me and safety. The goshawk just quickly melted back into the forest, just the way it arrived. I've trained goshawks before and they are very clever, especially the older adult birds. I once live trapped 3 of them in less than two hours for banding. They were all hanging around a pond full of ducks.
Incredible birds and so elusive here in the UK
What a majestic bird. Queen of her own.
Best hip thrust in the bird world.
Oh my goodness Si, how special is that bird wow? It will be great if she breeds & has the pond & surroundings as her territory! What a treat watching her I love Goshawks such a powerful magnificent bird, I'd live to see one in the wild in fact I've never seen a kite or goshawk, I remember seeing hobbies hunting insects over a river in Norfolk I was absolutely made up they were nesting in some trees but were not much bigger than a bat.. Anyway great to see these icon British Isles birds
❤️🤍💙 ....
P.S, I hope this Avian influenza passes, it is affecting this year's fledgling Herring gulls where I live down south...
Thank you Simon for your tireless work your dedication to helping our natural world its second to none, Respect 🙏
Its amazing how fast she can move those killer talons.
wow, they just look like huge sparrowhawks. she is a beautiful bird
Instant subscribe! This is so cool. What’s remarkable is- rats are incredibly tough- they can be bent in half in a trap & fight like hell for a long time.. seems like this beauty dispatched it instantly when she landed on it. Very precise kill it seems to me.
They are really big birds I was shocked at how big and powerful they are . I don't think golden eagles are bigger or maybe there's not much in it. Kestrels were small but amazing hovering . As for kites I've not seen one that I'm aware of but they seem fairly common now since DDT got banned. Now slug pellets need banning. People can use beer traps
Wonderful footage! Thank you!
What amazing quality footage - thank you for sharing this.
Thank you Robert
Such a nice bird!
one of my favorite birds are hawks (Red Tailed Hawks) .
Great footage thanks a lot looking forward to see more 💯🦅
A small touch of paradise to film this for sure!
Priceless coverage. And thanks for the comparisons.
She's lovely! At the beginning, it looked like she was dancing on his corpse
Beautiful! Thanks for the imagery!
Such impressive work, professional standard for sure. Thank you.
Such a wonderful looking bird of prey and fantastic quality footage 👍
What a beauty. Hope we see more of her
JEEZ... What a great video.. and what a great setting you have to capture ...
She's absolutely stunning 😍💗
I bet you are so happy to catch this video right I would have been 2 weeks ago I was feeding my birds or the Birds and a big big owl swoop by it Miss the birds but it was Majestic looking I love these types of videos this is what happens when nobody's out there looking awesome God is good
Well, you're going to get a Stellar Yelp! review from this little Ladyhawke!
Wonderful thrilling bird...fabulous sighting and camera view
Ive just finished reading H for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, her experience with a goshawk .
I may have seen one this year in the Borders.
...( Seen an African species of Goshawk though on safari..Pale Chanting...and they are very vocal , unlike our secretive European one)
Anyway I hope she finds plenty of rabbits and wood pigeons this autumn.
Simon Artley, Manchester
Thank you for that! Magnificent!
Uggh she's been looking at sleezy humans , judging by that twerk she did at the start..
Truly wonderful, liked and subscribed. Thanks for sharing. Love birds of all shapes and sizes. Truly amazing. John
Great 👍 welcome to my channel
Those eyes of hers are so intense!
Fabulous footage. Thank you for that. Astonishing.
Oh, suuuure. When she does it, she's "practicing her techniques," when I do it, I'm "playing with my food." 😆
What a treat for you to share with us, thank you. 🙏🏽💖
Great shot. You asked for comments - the dead giveaway for a first-year bird is the yellow eyes. When they mature they gain a nice orange color. These are the ultimate falconry hawks. They can fly down anything you put in front of them. The white, European Gos is fantastic.
I had a female Goshawk 27 years ago yes they are incredible birds
@@RobertEFuller Their only weakness is their focus on the prey they are after. My 1 lb tiercel could take a 6lb jack rabbit He was killed by a golden eagle while sitting on one of his catches. That was a bad day.
I've seen goshawks used in falconry for their ability to suddenly drop on their prey at 30-40 mph. It's a most stunning film to observe a juvenile in the wild continuing to apply its immature skills to hunt. You've provided an exceptional habitat for this species to visit. The film is an advocate for protected species and educational. I appreciate and admire you immensely! 🤎💦💫
What a stunningly beautiful creature. thank you for the vid.
Erica Lawson, look at bird bath
I remember watching that live it was amazing
Thanks mate excellent post.
That's mad to see 3 different species of raptors at the same wee spot of a pond!
Such a treat! Love your videos!
Thank you for showing alittle of the buzzard, I never knew how majestic they look! They need a new name 😋
There are many buzzards in Jura me Switzerland which was beautiful to watch.
Here in northern PA. It is a gift to see our goshawk in woods.
Mark Perrault, look at bird bath
0:05 got the moves like Jagger
I live in an extremely populated area. One afternoon an immature goshawk was eating a bird on my back lawn. When it flew away I went to the spot and all that remained was the feathers laid out in an almost ritualistic circle. When it got dark I noticed a dust print of the starling and the hawk on the picture window as they had crashed into it during the chase. The hawk made out better than the starling however.
Scott Schlemmer, look at bird bath
Rat: tortured to death
Video: happy, feel good music
👍Isn't that such typical actions from a newly independent bird of prey. It seems they need to prove to themselves, that they can actually hunt, and catch their own food, and it was no accident. Great bit of footage to catch Robert, top notch photography.👍
I noticed something moving up in a tree near me 2 months ago and I noticed it was a Goshawk staring at me just 10-15 meters away. I rarely see birds of prey that close but it was also a juvenile so maybe that was why. This was near a bird watching lake in Southern Sweden and after that I saw the Goshawk trying to catch some small birds in a field nearby
Great 👍 it always feels special to be in the presence of such secretive and elusive birds
Absolutely top bird, great footage 👏 👍
lovely bird the goshawk great find Robert 👍
Yes it was quite something to have it visiting my little pond