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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halftwo" data-source="post: 1362867" data-attributes="member: 45720">Sparrowhawk & CatThe days are getting longer now - Spring must be on the way!Dawn chorus: Mistle thrush singing somewhere on top of a tree, Robins, and even a Dunnock rattling its tuneless ditty.A foot from the window, watched by the cat, a group of Long-tailed tits on the feeder, ignoring the cat and me.Outside the cat follows - all goes quiet - a predator about. Suddenly a female Sparrowhawk nearly takes the cat's head off as it flashes past! The cat ducks and the hawk skims the hedge top, racing away, leaving us both stunned.  Maybe the Sparrowhawk mistook the cat's head for a bird.Now the Nuthatches are busy on the seed feeder and the Blackbirds are pecking at the apple halves, raptor forgotten.</blockquote>