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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tideliner" data-source="post: 1736584" data-attributes="member: 49435"><p>I spent this morning watching farmland birds and barn owls in the Holt area today when I sae a large flat winged hawk for a brief moment  that I could not ID. There was a guy pigeon shooting in the field below me and after 1\2 an hour the hawk returned and it as an acipiter. All my views were from above with the field as a background. Very large female sparrowhawk or goshawk ? The bird shot across the field and pounced on a pigeon he had just shot. The guy stood up in his hide and shouted at the bird , which lifted off taking the pigeon with it and flew off down the valley. I still cant make my mine up what acipiter it was , but has anyone ever seen a sparrowhawk carry off a full grown wood pigeon ? I know goshawks can.</p></blockquote><p></p>