A couple of years ago I visited a bit of my stalking one afternoon, in the Autumn. I was driving up the boundry track alongside a field of wheat stubble that was just about to be ploughed in. I rounded a corner and spotted this female sparrowhawk on a white pigeon/dove which it had just caught. The pigeon was still alive, and the sparrowhawk gave me a kind of defiant 'try taking this off me if you're hard enough' stare. The bird was about 30 yards in front of me so I grabbed the camera and took a few shots through the windscreen of the jeep. Here is one of the better ones....
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