Presentation
Dany GODINEAU
France
Photographs
Self-taught photographer, member of the A C P C and MER’VEILLES NATURE, I have been living in the East of Touraine for several years now.
With this exhibition, I want to share my privileged moments with the local fauna.
It is very close to my home (carbon footprint), in my affûts equipped with two-way lenses (for discretion), that I observe and photograph the local fauna in a long-standing fallow orchard.
One day, the sparrowhawk appeared as an arrow basing on the passerines present and settled close to me. It is from this moment that I never stop observing it, scrutinizing her moments of hunting, grooming, drowsiness. It is from his different behaviors that I took passion for this little raptor.
Exposition
The sparrowhawk is a great predator of small woodland birds, even if only 10% of its attacks are successful.
It hunts by making surprise attacks from hedges, thickets, groves, orchards and other areas of cover where it hides. The choice of its place of life depends on the presence of these hunting zones. He also visits the gardens of built-up areas, in search of new prey. It waits, hidden, for the birds to approach, and emerges from the canopy in low and fast flight.
The victim may be pursued through the vegetation. He may even sometimes go over the back and grab the victim from below. It also sometimes rushes at its prey from a great height.
