In my garden today.

Legacy_user

I was getting out of bed this morning and glanced in the garden. There on my lawn, no more than 12ft away from the house, was a sparrowhawk on the grass, devouring something. My wife and I stood (almost naked) watching this spectacle. I quickly grabbed my camerphone and started taking photo’s, but the angle looking down and with it’s back toward me, wasn’t conducive with a good shot.

I ran downstairs to view from the lounge and kitchen. Feathers flew as it plucked and ate the capture. My next thought was to grab my camera, but the batteries were flat. What a fiasco!. I must have startled it as it picked up the capture and flew underneath our garden swing and continued devouring this meal.

We must have been watching this amazing site for about an hour. Once the sparrowhawk had departed, I went out (after dressing) to see the mess. Apart from two heaps of feathers, all that remained was a yellow beak.

loumac

Eek! What a shame you didn't manage to capture the moment. It's always at times like that you can never find a camera. Always nice to catch the wonders of nature unawares though!

savingpennies

This happened to us a couple of years ago. I went into the kitchen and started to wash up and glanced out of the window. I noticed all this mess on the lawn and was thinking what a cheek some people had throwing things over the fence into my garden - then noticed a sparrowhawk calmly eating what looked like a collared dove, surrounded by a whole mess of feathers. It sat there for 20 minutes as did DDs and I. Fantastic sight. I have never forgotten it but did manage to take a rather blurred picture to prove to DH that we werern't fantasising.

Newgirl_2

Yep, we too have a resident sparrowhawk that is working its way through the dove population.

Kindly left one in our entryway and the remains of one on our patio table - which I hadn't noticed til I had been sat there 10 mins with my cup of tea - lovely!

i suppose next it will want a seat and a napkin!

Newgirl

Ice_2

I have a squirrel in my garden ..or rather it come's into my garden...I put my shopping down at xmas at the back door while I shut the garage then put my shopping away and it wasn't until later that I realised that the bag of nuts I had bought that were on top of the bag I hadn't put away...so went to see where I had put them I have until this day to know where they went...another day I hadn't as much shopping put the bag at the door...(big white ones 99p at Lidl that have a plastic bottom) went to close up the garage took bag into house door still open as dogs wanted to go out...out pops the squrriel well the screams off me were well very loud indeed...the squrriel popped out ran around the walls out the door around the trellis to which the dogs were at to there amazement it was like what the f...was that....wait aminute did something just fly past me...I don't even no why I screamed reaction I guess to my shopping coming alive on me...so that's where the nuts must have gone...glad the bloody door was open...I wouldn't mind I sit at my kitchen window and watch him/her every day so now I have decided to give it some nuts but with a twist I have laid a trail of nuts so maybe I can get some nice pic's of him/her as it's so bloody wick it's on speed ..:D