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ConfusedChicca
05-03-2008, 15:18
Hubby caught this bird munching on a pigeon today.
Apologies for crap quality, hubby's camera is rather naff.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q142/Chicca-Babe/SH100036.jpg

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q142/Chicca-Babe/SH100036trim.jpg
Dan Leach
05-03-2008, 15:22
Sparrowhawk maybe, kestrel maybe?
Cobra
05-03-2008, 15:24
Sparrowhawk 100% :thumbs:
kmlc
05-03-2008, 15:27
its a bleeding eagle!!!!
hehe
well, looks like it to me, and i am no bird pro. :)
but, pretty cool ***!!
IanC_UK
05-03-2008, 15:28
Sparrowhawk 110% :) should see the pic my mum took of one in their back garden, pile of feathers, it flew off while she was trying to find the camera ;)
kmlc
05-03-2008, 15:30
waa!
impressive site!!
is a sparrowhawk just a mini version of an eagle?
it sure looks like it
ConfusedChicca
05-03-2008, 15:31
I shall let him know. It's the second killing by a bird of prey that he's seen in the last few weeks. One was about 15 mins drive from this one.
I'm considering staking out this location (the yard that he works in) and leaving chunks of raw meat to try tempt the bird back!
kfridge
05-03-2008, 15:32
yep, sparrowhawk...had one in the drive a while back after it had just caught a wood pigeon - had bood streaks on the drive for a while afterwards :gag:
kmlc
05-03-2008, 15:32
oooh, you have to do that! and then show us the resuting pictures :)
Cobra
05-03-2008, 15:34
is a sparrowhawk just a mini version of an eagle?
it sure looks like it

No sorry not even close
A sparrowhawk is an accipiter
An eagle is a broadwing
Cobra
05-03-2008, 15:37
and leaving chunks of raw meat to try tempt the bird back!


Sorry won't work they are preditors not scavengers ( like buzzards Kites etc)
Spars prefer their meat fresh and mobile.
"Anything" you could try to attract a spar to a given location would be illegal in the UK ;)
Kentman
05-03-2008, 15:43
Crikey! just googled "accipiter" there are about twenty different goshawks and twenty different sparrows. I had no idea they where so varied. Regards Jim
W.Smith
05-03-2008, 16:02
Imo it's a Peregrine Falcon.
Cobra
05-03-2008, 16:07
Imo it's a Peregrine Falcon.


its nothing like a perigrine, they are a totally different family, shape, size and colour