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Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
One chilly, early January morning, blurry-eyed and blurry-brained, I walked into my kitchen looked through the large, almost cinema-screen like kitchen window, into the back garden.
The feeders were quiet, eerily so. Where there was usually a melee of flapping wings, there was only a vacuous silence.
Then I saw her. This wonderful, majestic Sparrowhawk, perched on one of my apple trees as if she was holding court.
Wise move little birds!
I ran to grab my camera, but I needn't have worried. She stayed in position for a good ten minutes, enabling me to get perhaps a once in a lifetime, close-up look at one of nature's finest, and this little video to remember her by:
The Eurasian Sparrowhawk is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian Sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below. The female is up to 25% larger than the male – one of the largest differences between the sexes in any bird species.
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