Hotspur
James Spencer
Yup 200 solely in Yorks- could have seen the Black Guille - i was ringing in top scrub at Filey but was too busy disentangling a Sparrowhawk from my tutors arm, OUCH!! He was gracious enough to let me remove it from the bird bag an i managed but was struggling with the wing length- he took over as i made it look so easy and got nailed by 8 talons/hyperdermic's immediately. Got a pic and will post in due course. In all i processed 15 birds, flushed a woodcock and unfortunately had a stoat raid 2 greenfinch's out of a net (we saw it killing its 2nd victim and legging it before we could intervene). Obviously we closed that net straight away. The sparrowhawk was caught with starling (only id'able by the wing coverts as it was headless and virtually bald). Was good fun.