identify raptor please (1 Viewer)

jape

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• Feb 9, 2018

• #1

this is backyard, Lymm, Cheshire. Apologies for awful photo through sunlit dusty window as I just grabbed phone and clicked! Identify raptor on blackbird?

 

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Simon Wates

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• Feb 9, 2018

• #2

Looks good for a Sparrowhawk

 

jape

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• Feb 9, 2018

• #3

thanks! quite a shock, happened in a second, one moment 5 blackbirds, tits and sparrows then this bird abd a flurry of feathers and gone with its breakfast! must clean windows.

 

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Simon Wates

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• Feb 9, 2018

• #4

jape said:

must clean windows.

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..and I thought it was the dust on my screen :-O Its quite a thing to get such drama in the garden!

 

jape

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• Feb 9, 2018

• #5

yup, exhilarating despite pathos. it rains dirty rain so much here and sun is so rare between clouds but at least you could identify for me. i nearly interfered but fortunately had the good sense to let nature run its course. the strike broke the blackbird's neck immediately and i saw the hawk flying away with it in talon fifty yards into bushes.