Mairi Eyres sent in this magnificent portrait of a young Goshawk with the following story:
“The
other morning I came downstairs to this juvenile goshawk sitting at the
table and chairs just outside the kitchen. My mum said it had been
flying repeatedly into the window. I ran to get my camera, came back and
sure enough it launched itself at the glass between us. It was quite
scary - like something out of a Hitchcock film.
After
it had flown off, I went outside to try to work out why it had been
behaving in this way. I noticed that the trees and sky were reflected in
the window so clearly that it was hard to see inside the house at all.
We think the young goshawk may have seen its own reflection and thought
there was another bird infringing on its territory. Or maybe it just saw
the reflected trees and wanted to fly towards them!”See Mairi's other photographic work at https://www.mairieyresphotography.co.uk/
Thanks Mairi, looking forward to future contributions!
Wow! Some experience that!
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