I happened to look down the garden this morning and saw what I thought was a wood pigeon sitting on my chopping block.
Looking again I realised it was actually a bird of prey tucking into it's breakfast of . . . fresh sparrow !
Managed to grab the camera and took a reasonable pic considering I was on massive zoom and balanced on the edge of the window.
See earlier blog link to youtube vid to see our large sparrow family. When we had a look all we could see were a few feathers and the beak which some wasps and ants were already fighting for !
Anyone know which bird it is ?
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4 comments:
It looks suspiciously like a Harris Hawk...but surely it can't be!
I am very tempted to say it must be a sparrowhawk of course :-) but it seems a bit too grey and the white collar around the legs seems quite similar to a female hen harrier. Your guess is as good as mine
cheers
Mark
It's a Sparrowhawk Robin. Nice picture. Kevin
Robin - if you think a bird of prey looks like a pigeon. Then it almost always is a sparrow hawk!
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