Oh, how I love the BBC. Way back in January 2010, I posted two BBC video clips showing gorgeous flight footage of a Golden Eagle, a Peregrine Falcon, and a Goshawk. The Goshawk was filmed flying through crowded forest undergrowth, its natural habitat. It slipped through narrow openings and dodged branches like they weren’t even there.
Today’s video clip is newer, and was filmed in a lab — enabling perfect focus on the exact maneuvers that a Goshawk makes to get through several openings. First is a standard, large hole, which is no problem. Then the hole is constrained horizontally. Then it’s constrained vertically. And then — well, see for yourself. Simply amazing.
Wow! A contortionist bird!
Three years (and a few days), already, that you started this blog!
Time flies when in good company…
Indeed it does!
(And I can’t believe it’s been three years already.)
It is encouraging that we still have people who are curious enough to want to learn new things and share them.
I’ll bet OEx learned that behavior from good home training.
I think you’re right…
Absolutely stunning, what amazing photography. A couple of days ago a sparrowhawk flew through my garden with the agility of a spitfire and probably faster. It landed on the lawn and we eyed each other from a distance of a couple of feet , separated by a pane of glass. It left empty taloned as all the small birds scarpered. Compare that to the stately buzzard gliding away after folding forward off the roof this morning, with a lazy turn round the trees, a laid back bird .
So awesome!