2 sparrowhawks!!!

[Nicos]

Yey!

Just been watching 2 sparrowhawks flying around and flirting with each other!

.......lets hope they have babbies

[Aberdeenplotter]

I had a less pleasant experience yesterday. As I left a job, I saw a couple of crows along the road and it looked as though they were trying to attack a young bird on the ground. Me being me went for a closer look and as I got close, I saw what looked like a bird shielding a young one with it's wing from the crows. The crows high tailed it and when I got really close, I saw it was actually a male sparrow hawk(much smaller than the hen) and it was shielding it's catch - a pigeon. I chased it off but don't know how the pigeon got on.

[Verinda]

I saw (and heard) a sparrow hawk catching a small bird the other day, it was horrible, but then I figured that sparrow hawks have to live too which made it seem somewhat better.

[Nicos]

Nature in the raw eh?
Makes you sort of relieved we are the top of the food chain

[muddled]

I'm quite partial to pigeon meat myself

A sparrowhawk brought down a parakeet in my friend's garden last year. Apparently it was a fast and no nonsense operation.
Swift and lethal.

Awesome things, birds of prey.