male sparrowhawk

my little regular garden visitor.just thought i would share him doing some of his preening.afraid my garden was quite dull but i still like these captures.

my little regular garden visitor.just thought i would share him doing some of his preening.afraid my garden was quite dull but i still like these captures.

my little regular garden visitor.just thought i would share him doing some of his preening.afraid my garden was quite dull but i still like these captures.

hi guys hope your all well not been doing much birding just now.got this guy across from my house i wonder if its my little regular male as ive not seen him in the garden since april.very dull here just now.

my garden sparrowhawk the other day and i noticed it was showing its third eyelid really well after having a preen.

yes you guessed it he came back tonight but he was in my front garden somewhere he has not visited for a while.i have a berberis shrub and the sparrows hide in this thorny bush but to night when i heard the sparrows and went out he was actually in the bush hunting.think he maybe feeding a female...

well guys i dont often get my little male hawk in a different location so had to share this.he was sitting right at my back door this morning i was looking in his usual location and there he was three feet in front of me,he flew to his usual perch and then on to this tree i call the big birds...

this was the same day he was being annoyed by the magpie and usually he just sits but this day he made quite a few attempts with talons outstretched on this occasion him and the magpie disappeared on the ground out of sight for a few moments then the hawk appeared back on this fence and the...

my little gardenhawk visitor.he is still here regular but two magpies are really giving him a hard time just now,this was him watching one on my bird feeder and i actually saw him three times make a dive with talons out stretched at one of them but the magpie just flew up above him still...

this my garden sprawk and on top of my hut roof instead of on the porch infront of it.

well most of you know this guy,my male garden sparrowhawk.my garden is part of his territory but as you see he does not hunt here all the time sometimes he just flies in and sits preening himself or alot of the time he flies in last thing before dark then flies off again,think his roost is near...

hi guys thanks for all the comments yesterday,had a few remarks about the hawk and pigeon.i have watched this hawk with the pigeons and he does not attempt to hunt them although most of them keep out his road anyway looking down at him from my roof.i keep birds myself mainly pigeons and...

i am fortunate to be able to get quite close to this guy.i feed the birds and have quite a few feral pigeons who visit.their is one which is not well just now and it flew down straight on to the ground in front of this guy today and starting looking for food its balance is not very good,i...

well its been a few weeks since i have posted my garden hawk,he disappeared there for longer than usual i was actually starting to think i would maybe not see him again but he returned a week ago and visits regular again but he never over stays his welcome.

returned home and my little sparrowhawk was waiting to greet me.he is here nearly every day but thought i would post this as he is not on his usual perch.not much info as he never stayed long just him and the magpie with their usual interactions.iso at 1600 and under exposed my back garden is...

well sparrowhawk and he also makes my garden less dull but in a different way.taken today on his usual perch so thought i would concentrate on his eyes in this one.ps i had to go to work and said to hubby if the hawk appears can you take a picture,i came home he said i took a picture but it...

think i had my iso up to high on my new camera for this one(forgot that bridge cameras are quite good at taking low light images) because i tried my olympus to get more detail on this guy and it just would not focus at 800 was going to work so never played around with the settings had to...

hi all.my other garden visitor,he is around most days but my back garden is even more gloomier than the weather here to get a capture.it is very interesting watching this guy and the interactions he has.the magpies almost sit next to him flicking their tail and making their clicking calls trying...

well snow,sleet and even hailstones today.very dull apart from the odd bit of sunshine trying to break through and thank goodness it did with this capture because i took loads and this one was the only decent one.well my garden sparrowhawk not seen him perched here for a week so it was nice...

This male Sparrowhawk is a regular visitor (as is his partner!) to my garden. He popped in for tea about an hour ago when he took one of the numerous Greenfinchs that feed here. Taken through the kitchen window at about 60 ft away so not the best quality

..... at the title suggests. Another image of todays visitor

In the past week this fellow seems to becoming a regular visitor to the garden.

Taken with a CP775 and Opticron80mm scope, the pic was taken through a double glazed window so I'm quite plesed with it.