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Birds - Sparrowhawk Page 4
Image Taken on 06 Nov 2020
at 16:25 Image of day on 16 Dec 2020
A female Sparrowhawk flies over the Kitchen bird table.
Considering the speed that they fly, this pic is unusually sharp.
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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2010
at 16:06 Image of day on 20 Aug 2010
A very relaxed hunt mostly spent with one foot drawn up into the
feathers, she was keeping her eye on something to the right she
finally quietly put both feet down and suddenly plunged to the
right. Left hand image is 9 minutes before the right pair, which
is an accurately positioned montage perhaps a second apart.
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Image Taken on 01 May 2008
at 10:20 Image of day on 14 May 2008
This week the Sparrowhawk has replaced the male Kestrel as flyby
tease of the week. Have always loved the mad yellow eye.
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Image Taken on 26 Mar 2008
at 12:15 Image of day on 14 Apr 2008
We believe this is a female sparrowhawk - normally viewed here as a
'woooosh - what was that' experience as a small bird exits existence :-(
On a not very fine day a surprisingly good thermal raised this circling
bird from just about photographable distance to a speck in the blue
in a couple of minutes with barely a wing flap.
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Image Taken on 25 Oct 2020
at 09:57 Image of day on 03 Dec 2020
As she flew away she started powered flight, providing an opportunity to show
the wings in action. This is very close-spaced - we couldn't determine the
accurate positions.
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Image Taken on 11 Jul 2019
at 17:36 Image of day on 31 Aug 2019
This female Sparrowhawk flies right to left with a medium sized bird in
her Talons and some of it's downy feathers stuck to the bottom of her beak. She
turns in the air and flies back a bit further away where we got a better view of
the prey - colour and size suggest a female Blackbird.
The 3 images are rescaled and exposure normalised to make a decent triplet.
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Image Taken on 13 Nov 2022
at 15:59 Image of day on 14 Dec 2022
Another female Sparrowhawk portrait at the kitchen window.
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Image Taken on 08 Nov 2022
at 16:34 Image of day on 07 Dec 2022
3 days later this female Sparrowhawk - the female is a bigger bird than the male -
makes a startling landing facing in the opposite direction to male.
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Image Taken on 05 Jun 2022
at 19:54 Image of day on 18 Jul 2022
After weeks of absence to female Sparrowhawk comes in to land
on the Kitchen Window perch as the evening darkens.
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Image Taken on 08 Jun 2022
at 13:03 Image of day on 18 Jul 2022
Three days later in mid-afternoon the female Sparrowhawk makes another visit.
Photographically inferior but lovely to see.
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Image Taken on 28 Feb 2022
at 12:46 Image of day on 03 Apr 2022
The female Sparrowhawk stops on the Kitchen perch right over the
peanut feeder as she does her rounds looking for 'tasty and nutritious' Tits.
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Image Taken on 26 Dec 2022
at 13:45 Image of day on 18 Jan 2023
Here is the Sparrowhawk departing.
Left to right the bird is perched, turns and looks behind, and dives down
and out of sight. This montage is extremely stretched horizontally.
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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2010
at 16:07 Image of day on 19 Aug 2010
This female Sparrowhawk spent about 15 minutes standing
on a 4m high branch about 15m from the house.
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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2010
at 16:09 Image of day on 19 Aug 2010
Scatching with that talon looks nearly as dangerous as a cut-throat razor!
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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2010
at 16:11 Image of day on 20 Aug 2010
Continuing images from yesterdays female Sparrowhawk ...
"I see you!"
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Image Taken on 13 Feb 2020
at 16:13 Image of day on 02 Mar 2020
A female Sparrowhawk takes an elegant selfie outside the kitchen.
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Image Taken on 29 Jul 2022
at 10:01 Image of day on 12 Sep 2022
The local female Sparrowhawk stops off briefly at the kitchen perch in the
bright morning sunshine. The swinging Peanut feeder suggests that she
either attacked a bird in it, or birds successfully fled in terror.
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Image Taken on 30 Jun 2022
at 10:23 Image of day on 19 Aug 2022
Our 'resident' female Sparrowhawk stops on the Kitchen Perch.
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Image Taken on 29 Jan 2022
at 14:52 Image of day on 02 Mar 2022
The female Sparrowhawk stops off at the kitchen window perch.
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Image Taken on 29 Sep 2021
at 12:26 Image of day on 12 Nov 2021
While the Kestrel was hunting on the south of the house, this female Sparrowhawk
paused on the bird table on the north side outside the Kitchen.
The hunting pattern of south side flyby then followed by north side flyby has
been the norm for the Sparrowhawk now for a few weeks.
Actually 'flyby' doesn't catch the speed of these passes - several times faster
than any other bird we see.
We estimate at least 25 mph including a wide 180 degree turn.
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