Hawk kill.

28/8/09.
Jo saw a hawk in the garden today, it was on the ground with its wings outstretched and had something white underneath it, she went out to see what was happening and found it was on top of a Collared Dove.
She tried to scare it off but it flew off with its prey.
From her description i would guess it was a female Sparrow Hawk.

30/8/09.
Took a walk today at the request of Warwick , those present were Warwick and Josh, Nicky and Emily and John and Molly+me (obviously!).
Started at the village hall with a demonstration of the spore dispersal of Earthstars, these are a fungus which occurs in the woods here, there is a picture on the blog and I believe Warwick videod it.
Walked up past the hotel with the children collecting seeds,flowers and leaves of various plants and trees. Showed them the galls on the Oak tree, three different types, and explained that they are all caused by different types of wasp.
Josh sampled a Sloe was not impressed, he said they made his teeth go dry , everybody else thought it was hillarious.
Went over the moors to Carn Barges looking a various things on the way but visibility was not good due to the mist and light rain so not much on the bird front.
At Carn Barges there were a lot of Gannets going by and a Shag on the rocks below, then Warwick spotted a Basking Shark and everyone was concentrating on that, it was moving roughly parrallel to the shore and gave some good views as we moved towards the cove .
We made our way up through the woods and so home.