How sparrowhawks catch garden birds – Life in the Air: Episode 2 Preview – BBC One
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How sparrowhawks catch garden birds – Life in the Air: Episode 2 Preview – BBC One
Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSubWatch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Programme website: http://bbc.in/1SMdeuR This bird’s incredible acceleration and agility enable it to to sneak up on its prey. #bbcAll our TV channels and S4C are available to watch live through BBC iPlayer, although some programmes may not be available to […]
Why is it wearing a ring??? Just saying
Now this is a video. I'm amazed all this footage was caught so perfectly.
There must be cameras set up everywhere.
The only thing missing is the prey.
How the HECK do you get this camera work ?!!!
Amazing! Absolutely amazing.
superb filming but for the sake of feminism the bird filmed is female, she is also larger than the male
I wish I could turn the music off and that goes for most nature programs! Anyone agree ?
Seems like this documentary about birds was directed by Zack Snyder
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Last week I was privileged to see this happen in my garden. A Sparrow Hawk caught a Nuthatch that was feeding on our hanging nuts. It was blazingly fast, puff of feathers and all over.
I keep pigeons and a sparrow hawk regularly tries to catch them, if I catch the sparrow hawk I will kill it
The 'He' is actually a 'She', as she's brown, and larger than the slate grey male.
DOESN'T SHOW CATCHING OF ONE BIRD… ALL GABBING NO CATCHING
Cool
Love sparrowhawks , winged terminators
Great video. Only one problem, this isnt a Sparrow Hawk. It is a Coopers Hawk. They are bigger and have banded tails. Google Sparrow Hawk vs Coopers Hawk. I am a wildlife and nature photographer and I find lots of mistakes in articles like this one. The people dont do any fa t finding before they write articles. It really is simple. All you have to do is Google something if you arent sure about it. In my case I just know these things because I photograph them for a living. I think many times these are Chinesr and they just put anything on these things to hold your attention long enough for you to buy something from their commercials. No e photography tho.
I’m almost certain this is a female not a male
One used to come and sit on our hedge ,while all the sparrows hid inside .You could see little heads popping out to see if it was all clear .
all those angles all those cameras all that time all that effort and not one shot of the actual catch. fail.
These Drones are becoming extremely lifelike !
They should do a program on how they made this very impressive video work.
This guy definitely beat flappybird
Brilliant
How in the world did they film some of this footage!
What a brillant piece of camera work, super filming & patience, well done to all involved 👍👌👏👏👏
Dont mind him catching my millions of Sparrows, wont mss those but leave my other little garden birds alone please.
Nice 🙂
Wow,they realy blended that bird in perfectly,it almost looks as iff he's realy flying in that garden,cant even tell witch is CGI…for instance,are you gonne tel me a drone with a camera flew in front of it at 1:00 ? and ofcourse all these cameras were perfectly positioned on this bird's path as the cameraman knew upfront where on whitch day of the year on witch hight that bird would be passing by… common people,dont be so gullable 😀
Amazing photography…but then this is the BBC.
I can bet that the hawk was paid actor.
I’ve had one come into my garden all the garden birds vanish for days after seeing a Sparrow Hawk and they are bloody quick
Cute big bird. Only doing it's job.
"It is a drone."
That is wonderful and very informative. We currently have a sparrowhawk devouring everything it can in our garden. We often glance it approaching at speed through tiny gaps and around corners. This film is spot on. Well done.
Not going through all these comments but… haven’t seen any yet confirming…. I’m seeing a brown, yellow eyed female sparrowhawk in most of the sections here?! It’s just I know that the BBC is doing more filming in controlled environments and blending wild images and recording (pushing the cutting edge of technology and possibilities as they do so.) To be ahead competition for networking or publishing these shows and high demand. Usually great though. Yours Aye.
All of that great video and the kill shot was obscured. :/
He is a she….
Am i the only one who is baffled by the fact that birds eat birds
I seen this happen in real life outside my house in south west Hungary.
One minute there was calm and the next feathers flying all over —- I didn’t have any warning
City centres need more of these to combat the pigeon pest issue.
So cute yet so deadly
Amazing speed!
I think that's a female, the white eyebrows and lack of redish chest mark out the female from the male so the narration saying "he" is wrong. I only know because I had one in my garden today so used the rspb website to identify it as I was guessing or was a kestrel. Anyway, first class footage, super slow mo was awesome.
2:25
Sparrowhawk:
Sparrow: Ohhh crap.
Immediately after finishing my lunch this afternoon, I looked out of the kitchen window and saw a sparrowhawk eating its own lunch on our garden table. At least that's what I think it was, having compared my zoomed in iphone photos to pictures of various birds of prey found in the UK.
mesmerizing… how do they shoot video like this?! incredible.
I saw tge aftermath of a sparrowhawk take down a starling.
I saw one take a sparrow off my shed roof this afternoon
That incredible footage looks like it took weeks to create.
Also the sparrow hawk hugs the ground on approach, like a fighter jet does to stay beneath the radar.
Literally just had one divebomb our neighbours bush and attack an entire group of tiny birds. Was insane.
Test, One, Two…
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Very good video. Thx.
Amazing.
These flying demons are not only a nuisance but a threat to all the song birds both in the wild and in our gardens. There needs to be another petition for a nationwide cull.
So this is my patronus charm. I like it 😃😃
Awesome, bird.
Great camera work..
they have been nesting in my backyard for several years now. a few years ago i was having problems with squirrels eating my peas and one morning i say some fur and a few guts as all that remained of a squirrel in the back of my garden. i have not had any more problems out of the furry little critters since then even though there are plenty behind my house.
i also saw one of these hawks carrying a squirrel just up the road one day. i am driving down the road and see this low flying hawk about hood high cross the road in front of me. in its clutches was a squirrel dangling from it claws.
Just saw one in my back garden in Edinburgh, dad has one in the Scottish borders that waits at his bird feeders. Sneaky birds! 😂 Beautiful too ❤
0:10 little dude just had no chance…
More than the physiology and biology involved in the sparrowhawk’s body, I’m more surprised by the video tech that was used to film this.
BBC are such bumbahclaat
seems like bird feeding tables aren't a good idea afterall!
Wow. Such a stunning video!
My spirit animal
Such a show-off, He knew he was on camera!
Some of this is CGI right? There’s no shadows in a lot of the shots where there should be
Stunning!!!
hawks are the pershings of nature, copying the terrain and then ! – attack
I hate them. They look like the devil. Killers.
Wonderful director, & editor,
Excellent video
thats a female
I’m watching this as I thought I saw one barrelling across the garden this morning, smack dab in the middle of London. What a thrill, what fantastic footage!
Peregrine falcon is the fastest bird not sparrowhawk
For those who are impressed by the shooting of the video, the sparrow hawk is a paid actor.
How on earth did the get that footage? HOW!!!
Increíble video…!!!!
NOOOO! Not the tits!!!!
Incredible footage!!!
Ahhh yes, sparrew Hawnk.
Fantastic 👏
What an amazing creator we have
Saw this in my backyard a while back. Amazing bird! Amazing video! In that order. 😁
Speedy
I'm here because hawk hunting 🐣🐤🐥 in my farm (6🐥)15 days
High speed dive and fly with 🐥
Never miss target
Amazing Predator
Incredible how the camera crew knew exactly the path the hawk would take. 😎
Amazing high quality video. Great job !
"The Last thing a Garden bird might see, is this!!" The picture of the Sparrow Hawk was scary asf!! 🤣
Conflicted at the moment. Have one visiting my garden eating all my sparrows but I really don’t want to deter it as it’s only natural 🙁
We just saw this wonderful creature in action in our garden today.
I was just watching a sparrowhawk do exactly this over my garden hedge, trying to get the birds off next doors feeder.
Excellent video, extremely hard to capture this rapture. I have bird feeders and I can't tell what raptor is going after because they are so quick..
How does he know that his targer will be at the exact place from miles away?
The last thing the bird might see, is this..😂
There's something wrong with people who say this is enjoyable to watch.
I filmed one of these in my garden today! It had caught a pigeon and was feasting. I wish I could share the footage with you all, the markings and strength of this birds legs were amazing.
Amazing detail!
I’ve just seen one in Action for the first time in my life, in my front garden and I saw it in such great detail because I have a massive window and what a sight it was, I don’t know whether he got the sparrow or not because it happened so quickly but all I can say is it was an amazing thing to witness and I had to have a look on here and see if I could find anything and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Beautiful videography
What incredible footage. This must have taken forever to capture and quite how they managed to track the entire route is quite staggering. Bravo.
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Beautifully done