The Goshawk is bold in attack, and powerful in thrust.
The large nest of the Goshawk is composed of hard twigs.
They feed with these birds whenever the Goshawk is in their neighbourhood, knowing that the Crows will attack him sturdily.
Next to the Lanner--falco lanarius--the Goshawk was the favourite among sportsmen in the olden days as indeed it still is among the nomadic tribes of Asia.
The Sparrow-Hawk attacks the Jay also; but he only gets the better of him after a long struggle, whereas the Goshawk punishes quickly.
The Goshawk punishes that bad but beautiful bird, the Jay, who does more harm here than the Sparrow-Hawk and all the three species of Butcher-birds put together.
Mark the gay squadron through the copse descending The greyhound with his silken leash contending Wreathed the lithe neck; and on the falconer’s hand With restless perch and pinions broad depending, Each hooded goshawk kept her eager stand.
Artists are fond of depicting the goshawk as she stands with outspread wings and half-open mouth with the hare paralysed in her terrible foot.
Even in England she was formerly flown with success at cranes, wild geese, and other large water-fowl; and the old books contain elaborate directions as to stalking these birds "with grey goshawk on hand.
For during the long process of carrying you will want to give your goshawk plenty of hard morsels to pull at; and none but the toughest will withstand for long the attacks of her sharp-pointed beak.
And each individual goshawk must have a room for itself.
When the very first symptoms of anything like stiffness appear in a goshawk or sparrow-hawk, no matter of what age, she should be taken at once into quite a warm place, and the affected limb fomented with hot water and embrocations.
A lost goshawk will very often come to the lure when she will not come to the fist.
It is well even to be a little extra-cautious in dispensing with this safeguard, for if a goshawk when only half trained does once make off, it is rather a chance if you ever come up with her again.
In time your goshawkwill be manned, and at least partly reclaimed.
This, however, boded no great good for the hawk; and her owner raised so unearthly a noise that reynard turned aside into the fence just as the goshawk took the rabbit only two or three yards away.
Mr. Riley, who has had so much success with the short-winged hawks, had thrown off a goshawk at a rabbit, which ran past some old hollow pollard ashes.
When another day dawned the gay goshawk left the birch-tree and alighted on the gate, a little nearer to the lattice window where sat the beautiful lady to whom he had been sent.
And as a token of my love I send you by your gay goshawk a ring from off my finger, a wreath from off my yellow hair.
The sharp eyes of the goshawk glanced at each beautiful maiden, and quick was he to see Lord William's love, for sweet was she as the flowers that spring in May.
The goshawk blinked and peered more close into the tired face of his master.
In this case it has sometimes been found that the Goshawk has quietly flown up to their house and alighted on its summit; there, by violently beating his wings, he gives a succession of sudden blows to the roof.
It is a good thing to a man that hath a noble goshawk or a tiercel or a sparrow hawk for partridge, to have such hounds.
The hounds for the hawk have so many other evil habits that unless I had a goshawk or falcon or hawks for the river, or sparrow hawk, or the net, I would never have any, especially there where I would hunt.
They justified their description of this goshawk as a distinct species, first of all by the fact that most of the Mascarene extinct species were distinct; and then because the bony ridge for the M.
Newton and Gadow bestowed the name Astur alphonsi on a pair of tibiae, a pair of metatarsals, and the metacarpals of the left side of a goshawk apparently of the same size and relative proportions as A.
The harmful varieties live almost entirely on poultry and wild birds, and include the goshawk or partridge hawk and the Cooper hawk, which is a true chicken-hawk and should be recognized by all farmers at sight.
The goshawk and chicken-hawk, in the amount of damage done, far exceed all other birds of prey.
On coming out into an opening, I saw a beautiful male Goshawk in full blue plumage perched on the top of a dead maple in a swamp.
About five o'clock this evening a large Goshawk in rather dark plumage came flying across the field only a few yards above the snow.
The swanlets took charge of the bride while the goshawk dashed down and tied the bridegroom to a tree.
Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons and above them flew seven cygnets.
A word from Prince Florentine, the goshawk, and they all rose into the air, herons beneath, cygnets above, and goshawk circling above all.
While she gazed in surprise at his sudden appearance, she beheld a transformation, and in less time than it takes to tell, the goshawk had become a gallant knight, with raven locks and flashing eyes.
On leaving his love, the goshawk flew past these safely, but when he returned at dusk the next evening, he overlooked them in his eagerness, and was sorely hurt.
The goshawk then swept leisurely back, and with graceful curves descended to the pond and collected its victims, taking the dead birds one by one and carrying them away as if laying up a store for its evening meal.
Its sharp eye always gleaming and on the alert, the goshawk sweeps over fields and woods, changing its course in an instant by a slight movement of its rudder-like tail whenever any desired prey is sighted.
Latham, in his book of Falconry, says that a goshawk is the first and most esteemed kind of hawk; that a sore hawk is from the first taking of her from the eyry till she hath mewed her feathers.
Like an arrow a goshawk darted upon them, while they, in their fright, huddled together.
The goshawk will take a mallard with perfect ease, neatly and deliberately strip off the feathers, and then, like an epicure, eat the breast only.
The American goshawk is the next bird of this family that I will mention, and I am very glad to say that he is only a winter resident.
The Goshawk is found in France and Germany; it is not common in England, but is more so in Scotland.
The owl also, will kill a partridge at night, while he is roosting in a tree; but the goshawk (sometimes called partridge hawk) pursues a policy of frightfulness amounting almost to extermination of the partridge.
The goshawk destroys many song birds, but his particular object in life is to kill partridges.
I suspect that our feeling of enmity toward the goshawk is not entirely due to sympathy for the defenseless partridge.
The name of Goshawk training has been given to the art whose special end was the education of these last two birds.
The Goshawk is difficult to tame; its ferocious nature is not subdued by captivity.
The crested goshawkmay be described in brief as a large shikra with a crest.
By the mastery he still had over his rein, the Goshawk alone proved that he was of the world of the living.
The Goshawk drew his fair charge through them, followed by Farina, the Thier, and Rothhals.
The Goshawk quickly made peace with his lord, and enjoyed the commendation of the Kaiser.
The Goshawk had seen some excellent beasts in the stables of the Kaiser's Krone; but the landlord would make no exchange without an advance of silver.
Goshawk lead off along the banks; 'courtly as a knight, open as a squire, and gentle as a page!
Farina modestly stood aside, and allowed the Goshawk to confront his prisoner.
The Goshawk griped the muscle of Farina's arm till the youth was compelled to slacken it with pain.
The odds are ours,' replied theGoshawk confidently.
Ancient ballads she sang that made the Goshawk sigh for home, and affected the Club with delirious love for the grand old water that was speeding them onward.
The two were close behind him: Guy the Goshawk prepared for one of those fatal pounces on the foe that had won him his title.
A whistle from the wain, following a noise of the castlegates being flung open, called the Goshawk away, and he slouched his shoulders and strode to do his part, without another word.
For this sport either the peregrine or the goshawk may be used.
Chaucer speaks of "Ryding on, hawking by the river, With greygoshawk in hand.
Sir Emerson Tennant, in his "Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon," speaking of the goshawk (p.
The Goshawk was in the act of replacing the pot of lilies, when a blow from a short truncheon, skilfully flung, struck him on the neck and brought him to the ground.
She and the Goshawk came trotting in advance of the Club through the woods of Laach, startling the deer with laughter, and sending the hare with her ears laid back all across country.
He stretched and threw a beaker of wine right and left behind him, and Farina's despair stiffened his limbs as he recognized the Goshawk and Schwartz Thier strapped to the floor.
His heart was in the dungeon with Margarita, or with the Goshawk in his dangers, forming a thousand desperate plans, among the red-hot ploughshares of desperate action.
While all heads, including Werner's, were directed to the aperture which surveyed them, Rothhals tossed his knife to the Goshawk unperceived.
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