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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChrisKten" data-source="post: 1481609" data-attributes="member: 69033">Well, they are back. Actually that may not be quite true.  A female Sparrowhawk (or a large male) showed up 30 minutes ago. The attack was totally different to what I've seen so far, so it could be a different bird.It all happened quite quickly, but it appears to have been hiding to the right of the kitchen window, close to the house. All the birds had just been spooked by a Magpie swooping into the tree, so the garden was quiet. All of a sudden 2 House Sparrows flew from the right of the garden (near the house) pursued by a Sparrowhawk. I think it caught one as the Sparrows flew into the tree. I managed to get the attached out of focus picture through the window before it flew off.I've never seen a Sparrowhawk chasing prey in flight, I just wish I had time to video it.Something interesting, yesterday evening I posted that I saw the first Sparrow fledgling of the year.</blockquote>