MARSH HARRIER / ELMLEY MARSHES / KENT / U.K
ALLIED TO WETLAND AREAS, where there are large areas of reeds, providing them with nesting cover. They seek prey further afield, however, even venturing over farmland. They catch a wide variety of quarry, with rodents and young water birds featuring prominently in their diet, do know for a fact they are quite capable of overpowering a common pheasant, hunting mainly as seen above on the wing, plunging down onto their quarry as soon as it is sighted.
VERY SORRY am way behind looking and commenting on your images, am trying to sort out 250 images for a book, and just one bird is letting me down, my cuckoo images are fairly poor, anybody know of a tame one in the south east.....lol.
Thanks for your visit, any comments are much appreciated indeed, keep safe my friends..............Tomx.
PLEASE VIEW LARGE,AND YOU COULD BE THE PREY!
MARSH HARRIER / ELMLEY MARSHES / KENT / U.K
ALLIED TO WETLAND AREAS, where there are large areas of reeds, providing them with nesting cover. They seek prey further afield, however, even venturing over farmland. They catch a wide variety of quarry, with rodents and young water birds featuring prominently in their diet, do know for a fact they are quite capable of overpowering a common pheasant, hunting mainly as seen above on the wing, plunging down onto their quarry as soon as it is sighted.
VERY SORRY am way behind looking and commenting on your images, am trying to sort out 250 images for a book, and just one bird is letting me down, my cuckoo images are fairly poor, anybody know of a tame one in the south east.....lol.
Thanks for your visit, any comments are much appreciated indeed, keep safe my friends..............Tomx.
PLEASE VIEW LARGE,AND YOU COULD BE THE PREY!