Bird I.D. please

[ConfusedChicca]

Hubby caught this bird munching on a pigeon today.
Apologies for crap quality, hubby's camera is rather naff.

 

[Dan Leach]

Sparrowhawk maybe, kestrel maybe?

 

[Cobra]

Sparrowhawk 100%

 

[kmlc]

its a bleeding eagle!!!!
hehe
well, looks like it to me, and i am no bird pro.
but, pretty cool ***!!

 

[IanC_UK]

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]

waa!
impressive site!!
is a sparrowhawk just a mini version of an eagle?
it sure looks like it

 

[ConfusedChicca]

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]

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

 

[kmlc]

oooh, you have to do that! and then show us the resuting pictures

 

[Cobra]

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]

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]

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]

Imo it's a Peregrine Falcon.

 

[Cobra]

Imo it's a Peregrine Falcon.

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