It wouldn’t turn around for a face on view. Is it a Sparrow Hawk?

by St0rmStrider

23 comments
  1. Sparrowhawks always look so alarmed, it’s the yellow eyes. “Shit, I’ve been turned into a bird!”

  2. Sparrowhawk, and probably a male one too, though the lighting makes it hard to tell.

  3. Yep, Sparrowhawk… well known for not making decisions…

  4. Looks like a Harrier. Possibly a Montegue Harrier because of the spring plumage.

  5. Sparrowhawk, they sometimes hunt in gardens, especially if there are juvenile birds nearby. Source: had one in our garden last year

  6. There’s one of these that lives near me. It decapitated a collared dove on my roof. The head rolled down the roof and landed outside the back door and there were feathers gently floating down into the garden. There was a pile of feathers on the roof but no sign of the rest!

  7. As others have said, it’s a Sparrowhawk.

    We have one in the garden and watching it delicately pluck the feathers from the breast of a freshly killed wood pigeon before eating it was one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in the garden.

    They are truly magnificent birds.

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