Hi peeps
Just had a visitor, now this aint the norm for the UK,well i aint never seen it sitting
on my fence before lol… Does anyone have any ideas as to what it might be?
I know its a Bird of Prey but which one, they only 1 i can find that resembles it
is the Goshawk, sorry the image aint any better but i aint no photographer im afraid :?
Ya might want to click the image then click view original size!
Think it could be a sparrowhawk . Could you not get it to face the other way. 
Looking at it again it could be a Goshawk as you say, with the 5 bands on the tail.
More likely a sparrowhawk. Goshawk a bit larger and only rarely perch in a garden.
Very difficult to differentiate the two; I rely on the eye markings.
I would agree that it is most likely a Sparrowhawk…there was one in my garden today (it got a Woodpigeon for its lunch)…
Sparrowhawks seem to like to eat pigeons and doves and I can’t say I’ve ever seen one eat a sparrow (not that there are many of those left these days). It makes me wonder why they aren’t called Pigeonhawks?
Because this is a Pigeon Hawk 
P.S. Where did the sparrows go?
Cheers for the replies,
Looking at the other images for the sparrowhawk, i do aggree with you all now
Thanks again peeps
But that seems only to be a US bird and we have sparrowhawks eating pigeons here, so I thought we should either invent a new species of bird or rename the current species.
P.S. Where did the sparrows go?
No-one is quite sure, or at least last time I paid much attention no-one seemed to know why. There used to be a lot of them and now there aren’t very many.
They started breeding again here last year. This year there is a superabundance; at least two broods and possibly a third.
Flock flew ino a nearby cornfield yesterday and must have been > 100
Three years ago there were possibly only five pairs.
Sparrowhawks agogo their favourite meal seems to be blue tits and greenfinch.
Had a buzzard knock itself out on the dining room window earlier in the month.
8O What did you have on the dining room table :lol:
a ‘honey’ buzzard
Resembles our Cooper’s Hawk here in the US. Glad the mystery is solved.
Need to do some emergency cleaning after my ISS took a direct hit by some low flying Canada Geese. 
My instinct was to grab the garden hose to clean it but that may have resulted in some interesting temp/rh changes.
This topic was automatically closed 180 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.