New Garden Visitor

[g4ghb]

We had a new visitor to our garden yesterday - I guess it was attracted to the food there........ thing is the food used to fly about itself!!! The closest guess I can make is a young buzzard, can anyone make a better identification?

Our estate is on the edge of town so there is only a couple hundred metres till open farmland.

apologies for the poor photo - it was taken from behind glass and it was raining!

 

[locum76]

i reckon its a sparrowhawk...

http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/Birds/sparrow hawk.jpg

Rob

 

[g4ghb]

I reckon you are right Rob - it was too small for a buzzard hence wondering if it was a juvenile...

 

[ArkAngel]

Definately Sparrowhawk, we have one that occasionally comes into the garden and causes havoc!

 

[grumit]

awesome we have a family of four perigrin falcons around my work at the moment had 3 of them in the top of a dead oak friday with a fresh pigeun kill the boss,s wife got some cool pics