Jan Funcks of Liverpool 8 sent me these pics of a female sparrowhawk having lunch in her back garden recently.
A familiar sight for many people, who despite this frequently need counselling in the aftermath of a "sprawk snack attack", these great little accipiters are built for our garden landscape.
Jan's bird has so far grabbed house sparrow and starling _ the latter taking the hawk an hour and 30 minutes to strip and eat.
Nature red in tooth and claw...
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies.
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I have had a male Sparrow Hawk visiting my garden for the last 12 mths, it takes pigeons, collared doves, greenfinches, goldfinches and blackbirds. Unfortunately we havn't seen any House Sparrows for a few months so they are off the menu.At the moment we have up to 30 Golfinches and Greenfinches plus a few Chaffinches in the garden attracted by copious amounts of sunflower hearts (they can't resist them)Also seen in the last week a Goldcrest, small groups of Long Tailed Tits and 2 Jays. My check list for the garden is over 40 species.
Regards
Mike Cain
Southbank Road
Grassendale
Liverpool 19