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  1. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    Have you all seen this? Should we start all over again? http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9724
  2. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    You don't think I paid for either of them do you?
  3. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    Bog off, Steve!
  4. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    I don't know if Goshawk have a 'nickname', what I can tell you is that they have bloody sharp claws!
  5. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    That's me taught a lesson then. I wouldn't know a Goshawk if one landed on my head!
  6. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    So it is an adult male Goshawk then? Only kidding - go and have another brandy Diane!
  7. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    OK, OK I give in. You can rest easy now, Dianne ;)
  8. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    Woohoo, this is great fun! I'm still not convinced. The orange stuff is irrelevant (Dianne has already said that she 'meant female'). Yes, the legs do look a bit thin, but juv. Sparrowhawk has no business showing such a contrasting head pattern or the blue/grey colour on the upperparts or the...
  9. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    The white spot on the nape would still apply - infact more so, as males don't always show it. I'm not saying it IS a Goshawk (the odds favour sprawk), I'm just a little concerned by the jiz of the bird and that striking head pattern.
  10. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    A male Sparrowhawk would show a distinctly orange breast with much less barring on the underparts. He may also have a fairly obvious white spot on the nape. To me, the head pattern is screaming "adult male Goshawk".......but then, I've been wrong before! I don't think the 'urban areas' thing is...
  11. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    In all honesty Dianne, I don't think I am winding Michael up. All the features I mentioned are all consistant with a small male Goshawk (inculding the yellow eyes!). A recently fledged juv. Sparrowhawk would presumably still show a small amount of downy feathers (esp. on the mantle/scaps), nor...
  12. CJW

    juv. Sparrowhawk

    Hmmm. Juv Sparrowhawk eh? With that extensive, dark mask, supercillium, blackish crown, blue-grey upperparts, no white spot on the nape, ......Definitely not a male Goshawk then?
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