western France 25 july : We thought Goshawk but... (1 Viewer)

[buck mulligan]

Hello everybody

Your help please

we saw this yesterday being "chased" by two Black Kites so we had direct comparison and the "Goshawk" was not much smaller than the KItes which made us think female...

No photos of the three together as the photographer was having breakfast when I shouted for her...

cheers

 

[dwatsonbirder]

Uniformly barred secondaries suggest Sparrowhawk, as do the slightly squared corners to the tail.

 

[buck mulligan]

Thanks for this

And the head\neck seems too short -which gives it a shape that is more of a T than a cross ,


but in direct comparison to the Kites it was very big for Sparrowhawk


ah well
next time
:/

 

[JayFeatherPL]

Yes, that's a sparrowhawk (short neck with a big head, square tail, "S" shape wing edge), probably a female👍