Sparrowhawk Kill

This morning we woke up at around 6am and were watching the baby birds from our lounge window. Regular visitors include baby Blue Tits and Great Tits, baby Starlings two young Blackbirds and a juvenile Robin.

Recently we've been getting a juvenile Bullfinch and Dunnock. Unfortunately the baby Dunnock met with an untimely end this morning when it was sadly taken by a male Sparrowhawk.

This aggressive predator had obviously been eyeing up our fine array of birds deciding which one to take for its breakfast! The baby Dunnock was predated at 06:50am when the Sparrowhawk swooped down and grabbed it from the lawn.

We managed to get a couple of decent pictures by scrambling to get the Lumix FZ150 camera.

Fortunately we were spared it eating the bird - we think it flew off back to nearby West Wood, Greenham to feast!