Okay, just having my tea when I glanced out the patio doors to see a large blur on my bird bath in the back garden.
Okay, so I didn't have my glasses on. Found them, look again, a Thrush? Naw, too big. Grabbed camera, thankfully it already had a zoom lens on and looked again.
Oh boy!
Apologies for the slightly fuzzy appearance, these were taken from within the house, through two pairs of double glazed doors! It's a Raptor, that much I know, but not 100% which bird of prey it is. As yet.
Got a cousin who knows these things, ‘tis a female sparrow hawk!
Spotted on my bird bath this evening
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Spotted on my bird bath this evening
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I was thinking Jurassic Park Raptor silly boy ![[Scared.png]](./images/smilies/Scared.png "[Scared.png]")
Looks well fed or maybe regularly works out at a gym![[Big grin.png]](./images/smilies/Big%20grin.png "[Big grin.png]")
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Great photo.N=R* x Fp x Ne x Fl x Fi x Fc x (1+Nr) x Fm x L
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Re: Spotted on my bird bath this evening
It’s a female Sparrowhawk according to my cousin (serious Twitcher) and Chris Packham (BBC’s Springwatch).
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Yes a sparrow hawk i see them high up beside the A52 here in Lincolnshire just hovering looking for their next prey. ![[Like.png]](./images/smilies/Like.png "[Like.png]")
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Yes, definitely a Sparrowhawk. It will be looking for its lunch, normally a starling or more often than not a pigeon.
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Wish she’d get rid of some of the fat, noisy pigeons that decimate my bird table!
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Definitely a Sparrowhawk, had one clip my ear last year, if flew right over my shoulder chasing a finch. the finch managed to get through a tiny hole on the hedge, the Sparrowhawk sat on the hedge for a few seconds before flying off again. We have a pair at school, turned the corner the other week and the female was standing on a dead Pidgeon having her breakfast. Today, first day back the football pitch is covered in feathers again, another deceased Pidgeon.
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