Sparrowhawk for me too, those primary fingers standout as more of a feature of sparrowhawk than peregrine
The shape of the bird's left wing is clearly that of an accipiter and not a falco.
RB
By pure chance we can also see the right wing which looks somehow like a Peregrine Falcon wing, I don'st say it is one but I am pretty sure it is not a Sprawk (Gos maybe with that chest, an it's behind the Red Kite and not a small bird)
Pictures like these can be very deceptive, it's gut feeling and I may be comletely wrong and it is a crow
https://www.flickr.com/photos/150317576@N08/44840715694
To be honest my initial gut was of a Crow species ...
Corvid - most probably Carrion Crow. The apparent shape of the right wing is an artefact of the angle the photo is taken at. I can’t help feeling that this image exemplifies the problem with trying to identify birds ‘after the event’ from a photograph when simply watching it ‘live’ for a few moments would make an identification obvious.
Thanks, it seems that we have some sort of consensus on crow. I agree with your point but I didn't see the bird until I looked at the photo.
By way of an addendum, there was a red kite at the same place today and it was being dive-bombed by the two local kestrels (who have a nest near-by). They looked tiny in comparison.
Didn’t mean my post to sound like a criticism - I was simply highlighting the difficulties of looking at single shots compared to a moving bird.
FWIW, I believe that the anomalous lump left of head to be the possible heavy beak of a Raven?
Cheers