tailieunhanh - bbc wildlife magazine september 2010 phần 7

mag xuất bản một loạt các sản phẩm kỹ thuật bao gồm mọi khía cạnh của kéo, caravaning và cắm trại, và một danh sách toàn diện của chiếc xe caravan, xe và nhà di động thông số kỹ thuật. Nhưng không chỉ là về phần cứng. | ss NATURE-WRITING AWARD JUDGING THE WINNER BBC Wildlife s third annual nature-writing competition attracted record entries perhaps reflecting a raft of articles in the media stating that this form of literary endeavour is the new rock n roll . The judges took over two hours to create a shortlist - in the end a vote was needed to decide the winner. Conor Jameson s piece about an encounter with an urban goshawk is dark and moody with overtones of film noir and reveals something new about the raptor. CONOR JAMESON Conor says he s a Ugandan-born Scotsman of Irish parentage living in PHANTOM Almost the stuff of folklore the goshawk is a rare sight and supposedly extremely wary. But Conor Jameson defied the odds and encountered one in the centre of Berlin. BERLIN. LATE FEBRUARY. As chill and still and drab as all the Cold War spy thriller cliches. I am here with Altenkamp Thaf s how Rainer answers his hands-free phone as we drive to the fourth and last of our destinations this afternoon. In the east of the sprawling city is Rainer s precinct . This is where he does his stake-outs stalks his quarry makes his notes. But we aren t looking for dissidents. Those days are gone. We are looking for goshawks. Improbably we are in a swing park. And not a very big one. It makes a change from the first three venues on my whistle-stop tour - cemeteries. We found evidence of goshawks at all three - plucking sites nests tantalising goshawk calls. The park is dotted with people. The quiet is punctured by the cries of children and small dogs. There is a tennis court a roundabout and swings. Mallards loaf on a tiny duck pond ice still intact around its muddy scummy rim. It doesn t look promising all this. I m still stuck in my image of the goshawk as a bird of remote and expansive conifer woodland where it remains strangely invisible. The trees here however are towering in places. In one Rainer points out a gos nest from last year. Further on we spot what must be this years effort another