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I've just had a real surprise, I was in the doorway to the garden when there was an "eruption" of Sparrows from the rose arch and the feeders attached to it, I glimpsed a larger bird flash by, moments latter a Sparrowhawk appeared over the fence with a Sparrow in his talons, he then flew through rose arch and disappeared over another fence. Astonishing sight, the more so for being in a fairly urban location.
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Unfortunatly, they are starting to appear more and more in urban areas due to the fact we are destroying their natural habitat with housing estates.
They are a great sight, we have one quite often in and around the garden (we are lucky enough to live in the sticks). Always a shame to see it taking a poor little sparrow, but needs must.
I think I'd have needed the camera on and set to sports mode to have stood a chance of getting a shot of him!
It is sad to see one of our mass of visiting sparrows killed but that is nature. I've been on a train on the West Somerset Railway and watched a buzzard take a rabbit right by the train - didn't know whether to hope the rabbit got away or the buzzard got some food.
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I saw one in my garden a number of years ago. He swooped and caught a blackbird then proceeded to eat it. I went down after he flew off and all that was left were some feathers and a yellow beak. Not sure if I was amazed or saddened, probably both.
I think Ray's one would scare everything off the feeders - perhaps that is the answer, put feeders in a more open location so the birds can see threats coming more easily? Though if they stayed put in the roses they'd be pretty safe.
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We have a regular one in our garden in a suburban area. He hunts the collared doves. Last time he took one he ate it in the garden. He must have taken 30 minutes, just sat there tearing it up, completely unperturbed by my staring at him and general noise. Lovely looking birds.
There was a Sparrowhawk in my garden about 10 days ago. It sat motionless on the fence next to my kitchen door for a while. A Goldfinch was feeding just a few feet from the Sparrowhawk, blissfully unaware of it. The Sparrowhawk took off like a rocket, then flew at full speed straight through a very large buddleia 3 times to flush out the various Blue Tits and Great Tits perched there. It missed them all because they quickly vanished into a dense shrub next door. The last I saw was the Sparrowhawk in high speed pursuit of a Starling over the neighbours' rooftops. Who knows if it was successful or the Starling got lucky and escaped.
I think it must have been a migrant bird because I haven't seen it again. Apparently Sparrowhawks migrate with the flocks of summer visitor birds they prey on. That sort of makes sense. It just dropped by to see if there was good hunting to be had in my garden. I live in a high density modern estate with few trees.
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