Identify this chap

[Malxwal]

 

[Stalker62]

Sparrowhawk

 

[Foxyboy43]

Sparrowhawk? The terror of my goldfinches….

 

[Malxwal]

He and I are on a wee cruise in the Black Sea. Actually three of them onboard.

 

[Longstrider]

That Sir, is what the old keeper I grew up knowing would have called a 'Spadger-Ork' A couple of years back I had one dismembering and eating a great tit about 18" from my left ear whilst I was sitting in a hedge (cammo jacket and face veil on) waiting for pigeons on a flight line. It was amazing how gory the noises were

 

[long_range_rob]

Had a female drying its plumage and warming up on the backstop of the BSRC earlier in the year.

 

[Smellydog]

Sparrow hawk.
Murdering little....
Had it's big cousin the gos try and grab a squirrel right beside me Friday. It never saw me.

 

[shakey jake]

Love to see them in the garden, one killed a collared dove last week

 

[Ratel]

It's an orrible ork. "Melodiousaviandestructionork"
Packhams favourite bird.

 

[Jon P]

I get them quite regularly in the garden taking sparrows out of the bird bath. Great to see- we also have an abundance of sparrows.

 

[Foxyboy43]

I netted this rascal a few years ago, just after it ate yet another of my goldies - when I saw it had a damaged eye. Bathed it with cotton wool and water and suddenly the eye popped open - quite the most brilliant eye I have ever seen - defo the eye of a killer. As a thank you the bugger ate my goldies and sparrows for several more years! The children and grandchildren of old “one eye” continue to wreak such havoc but my god what a master of the air!

 

[MAH]

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