| Re: Nature in the raw
Maybe, the sparrowhawk regularly feeds on my birds. Maybe this is just the first time we have noticed.
Jenny[/quote]
Hi Jenny, it is very likely that the hawk does take birds from your garden more regularly than you realize. They seem to manage to pick off the youngsters quite easily. My husband watched a female Sparrow Hawk chased a Goldfinch off the feeder in our garden and through the trellis, the gap of which at most is around 6 inch square!She flew with such agility that my husband felt sorry for her as the Goldfinch escaped!
It is suprising just how many times they actually appear in the garden but have little or sometimes no success.
I suspect this will be a regular haunt for your Sparrow Hawk but, as we have found in the past, you don't always know they are there or that they have been.
Tornado
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