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Not wanting to get bogged down and divert attention away from what is a fabulous set but, as I said in my first post, this is a Male Sparrowhawk.
I'll address the points one by one:
1. The leg colour is irrelevant and does not indicate either sex at any age.
2. White above the eye (it's called a supercillium) is often present on younger males (see: http://www.machrihanishbirds.org.uk...parrowhawk Machrihanish SBO 10th Sept '08.jpg).
3. Again, the amount of, lets call it orange, varies from bird to bird depending on the age and state of moult (again, refer to link above in item 2). At no time does a female show this colouring of any degree.
4. The bird is way to small for a female.
thanks Chris as I say I am no expert on these thats why I titled it Sparrowhawk and didn t attempt to sex it was just going by what I saw in the book but thanks for all the information on them thats the trouble with some books to little information but whatever sex it is I was chuffed to watch and capture this beautiful creature and thanks for the comment