Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Sparrowhawk versus Starling - no contest

   
Interim post today so I don't have to create a large post later.

Two female Sparrowhawk photos, usually I'd have to wait till winter for a female, and they are usually immatures. 

The hawk was in bushes at the back of my garden having flushed everything, I didn't know that until later when I looked at my security camera. I had walked past it and into my car, and while I was in the car it flew to the edge of my pond. I went back into my kitchen, only then did I see it with a Starling. Photos are from an upstairs window where I could the bird behind some plants.



Sparrowhawk in my garden plucking a young Starling






Yes more Swifts, and more will come when the youngsters start to leave their nest in my roof. They will leave and return often to start with. My neighbours are used to me standing in the street try to get impossible photos...




I suggested to Olive that these two Feral Pigeons reminded me of Olive and I. No comment yet!

One of five Herring Gulls that persisted in landing in the garden, it took ages to stare them down

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