A very angry sparrow hawk viscously attacking the door trying to get to the cat's food bowl. The cat, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen. I guess it had come for round two now I've paid for the glass to be replaced.

by arse-biscuits-

23 comments

  1. It looks as though you’re mere Whiskas away from having to pay for another new pane of glass.

  2. It’s weird, for sure, but there’s no way a sparrowhawk smashed a pane of modern double glazing. 

  3. Hawkward! It’s probably trying to fight It’s own reflection.

  6. Please think about putting some anti collision stickers (self clinging) on your windows or net curtains to show there is something there

    Birds often fly into windows because they mistake the reflection of the sky or trees for open space or perceive a clear window as a fly-through path (also as a means of escape from predators)

    Window strike kills millions of birds every year

  7. Cats are a lot less brave when the bird has equally big claws

  10. Replaced the glass *already*?

    8 out of 10 Homeowners – said they deferred it…..

  12. You should put some stickers on the window so the bird can see there’s something there.

  14. You are teasing it most cruelly! Put the cat food out of sight and try some reflectors/bigger bird of prey decals to dissuade it from a further concussion. I’ve only had common pigeons slam into my window. Leaves an imprint like a Christmas dove, but makes me feel guilty that I had clean windows…

  15. Surprised a sparrowhawk could break a window. I’ve had one hit a greenhouse and it didn’t work out very well for the poor bird

  16. I was at home once and heard a loud boom in the kitchen. I walked into the room and could see no damage, nothing had fallen and exploded etc.

    So I walked into the garden behind the kitchen and noticed there were crumbs of bread all over the patio. I was very confused why is this here? So I looked around the garden and eventually under a bush was a pigeon wearing the crust of a slice of bread round its neck like a racing driver would wear a laurel wreath.

    What had happened was the pigeon had picked up the slice of bread by the middle. And flown off in such a joyful panic way it forgot that it couldn’t see where it was flying and smashed headfirst into my kitchen window punching its own head through the bread like a car windshield.

  17. My pet doves live in front of my sliding patio door and over the years there’s been several Sparrowhawk attack attempts but thankfully never any damage to the glass. The loudest I heard was whilst in bed upstairs – it sounded like somebody trying to break in followed by my lot losing their damned minds and thrashing around in a blind panic. That is not a way I ever wish to be woken up again.

  18. I was a falconer as a teenager doing flying displays at a kid’s petting farm and a Harris hawk did this but into my sunglasses. Kids thought it was great. Me, not so much.

  20. Motherfu****. That’s Richard Cooper. He loves stealing dog’s food.
    We call him Cooper. He steals dog’s food.

  23. Oh dear, is there perhaps something you can use to deter them from doing it again? Some sort of decal or blind?

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