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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JCLynn" data-source="post: 1677225" data-attributes="member: 77625">Fantastic observations and additions to the thread. Thanks.Super photographic additions Sy and I love that Sprawk photo of yours markyboy!With nature, as with life in general, there are no 'free lunches' and as a result of our love for birds, we feed 'em in our gardens, which leads to increasing observation and learning about the opportunistic Sprawks. Personally, I don't feel that Sparrowhawks are getting 'easy pickings' in our gardens and our 'flocks' of tits and other small passerines taking advantage of our free food offerings, are in no greater numbers than the foraging flocks of finches and tits that we see out in the fields and woods in winter, it's just a different location.At the same time, I feel that the 'victims' of Sparrowhawk predation in our gardens are still the weak,old or unwary, the same as the ones caught in a Sparrowhawks 'natural habitat' and hunting areas.When you watch a blue tit feeding on a peanut feeder, it's behavior and alertness is exactly the same as a woodland blue tit hanging on alder cones searching for insects.</blockquote>