Raptor experts

[Greyman 28,013]

on my travels around the wilds of Bristol in search of things out of the ordinary, I,m finding signs of goshawks making a bit of a comeback including sadly a dead body last year, confirmed by the Gloucester raptor society, in the same woods were I found the hikers backpack a few weeks back I,ve been finding piles of wood pigeon feathers on the floor in the middle of rides through the woods, this morning I came across a bird sat on this carcass, it was buzzard size reddish brown in colour with a pale bluey grey looking tail, I only caught a brief glimpse as it was up and away as I came round the corner but here's what it left behind, was wondering if anyone on here would be able to ID it from the kill site, I,ve been finding these always in the middle of the path around the woods for the last month or so now 

[dave88 1,565]

Pretty sure It was a velociraptor

[downsouth 7,143]

Could be a this years Gos.Just the blue/grey tail that sounds odd.

[Greyman 28,013]

21 minutes ago, downsouth said:

Could be a this years Gos.Just the blue/grey tail that sounds odd.

There are a lot of buzzards here as well, it might have been a buzzard having a scavenge on it but I don't think it would have the room to take the pigeon itself, the other new bird of prey I,ve seen this year was a red kite but think they hunt in a simular way to buzzards IE scavenge dead or injured animals, here is the path there are miles of these through the wood and I,ve found 4 pigeons in different areas around the wood but always in the middle of the path,s

[The one 8,457]

Would the buzzard not just be feeding off the carcass ?. would it be fast enough to catch the pigeons ?. 

[Qbgrey 4,062]

They catch pigeons,and pheasants,all those people that say they feed  on dead birds is bollox.

[Greyman 28,013]

4 minutes ago, Qbgrey said:

They catch pigeons,and pheasants,all those people that say they feed  on dead birds is bollox.

I,ve seen them catch rabbits but only with myxie, and I no they do catch stuff when they need to but will always take an easy meal if available, my main doubt regarding the buzzard being responsible is that what ever is taking the pigeons is hunting along the paths and a sparrow hawk would be a bit small which would only really leave a goshawk, you can see in the pictures that the paths are almost tunnel like so whatever is taking the pigeons is not hunting from above as a buzzard would, I will have a load of cameras up in there in the next few weeks so maybe I,ll catch the culprit on film, though I,d be amazed if the trigger time would catch one, I,ve had a tawny and several bats before and did try to set some for a gos when I saw one go threw my mates orchard a couple of years back but to no avail  

[sandymere 8,263]

Female Sparrow hawk most likely.

[j j m 6,533]

as above female spar

[downsouth 7,143]

Id of said spa but Greyman said the one he saw on the carcass was buzzard size.

[stumfelter 3,034]

I'm no expert but in the second picture there appears to be some kind of dog. 

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