Close Encounter with a Sparrowhawk (1 Viewer)

[DBK]

Investigating a sudden thump on the window we found a bird lying in a heap below it. I picked it up and stood it on a table by the door.

A juvenile Sparrowhawk but I can't work out if it is male or female. In the adult only the female is brown but in juveniles both are brown apparently. It wasn't very big so I think male. However, after looking dazed for about ten minutes it flew off and sat in a tree for a while before flying away. Hopefully it has learned not to attack birds coming to the feeder near the window it hit.

The tea towel it is sitting on is from the Well Hung Meat Company and I suspect the bird would broadly agree with what it written on it with the proviso of "hold the vegetables".

 

[Wildbill]

Investigating a sudden thump on the window we found a bird lying in a heap below it. I picked it up and stood it on a table by the door.

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A juvenile Sparrowhawk but I can't work out if it is male or female. In the adult only the female is brown but in juveniles both are brown apparently. It wasn't very big so I think male. However, after looking dazed for about ten minutes it flew off and sat in a tree for a while before flying away. Hopefully it has learned not to attack birds coming to the feeder near the window it hit.

The tea towel it is sitting on is from the Well Hung Meat Company and I suspect the bird would broadly agree with what it written on it with the proviso of "hold the vegetables".

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You are very privileged to have such a lovely bird bump in to your van
Bill

 

[pappajohn]

I'm most disappointed.
You get sparrowhawks.....we get wood pigeons.

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[Bill_OR]

Great pics @DBK - by complete co-incidence we had a sparrowhawk in our garden yesterday. It sat on the grass for about 15 minutes looking a bit dazed. I suspect it had just hit a nearby phone line. Fortunately it recovered and flew off so no intervention was required. Normally all we see of sparrowhawks are the remnants of pigeon left after a snack!

 

[tonyidle]

I'm most disappointed.
You get sparrowhawks.....we get wood pigeons.

We get both - twice a sparrowhawk and its pigeon prey have hit our house. Once the back door, once the kitchen window.

 

[DavidG58]

Nice close encounter as you say, don't think I would have fancied handling it, did you just open the door to release it ?

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[CWH]

How beautiful, glad s/he was able to fly away

We had some of these on the windows in the last house in Cornwall, they stopped a lot of birdstrikes



Don't think they do sea eagle sized ones for the new house on Skye - but even if they did, I doubt the windows are big enough

 

[Dave K]

How beautiful, glad s/he was able to fly away

We had some of these on the windows in the last house in Cornwall, they stopped a lot of birdstrikes



Don't think they do sea eagle sized ones for the new house on Skye - but even if they did, I doubt the windows are big enough

Have you seen a sea eagle yet Wendy, I'd love to see one, we were talking to a farmer on Harris this year and he said it was like seeing a barn door fly over!

 

[CWH]

Have you seen a sea eagle yet Wendy, I'd love to see one, we were talking to a farmer on Harris this year and he said it was like seeing a barn door fly over!

Oh yeah!

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[Dave K]

Oh yeah!

Amazing! Very jealous

 

[davanne]

We have a sparrow hawk that comes to the garden ....the other day it flew low close to the back of the bungalow I was in the kitchen at the time it frightened the life out of me as it whizzed past the window.

 

[DBK]

Nice close encounter as you say, don't think I would have fancied handling it, did you just open the door to release it ?

It fluttered a bit so I picked it up and carried it outside and put it on the ground whereupon it flew off. It showed no aggression towards me, probably still a bit groggy. I only brought it inside after the initial crash because a couple of cats from next door do sit on our fence from time to time and might have had a go at it if I had left it outside on the ground.

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