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I witnessed an unusual and slightly amusing event, along our local Beck side yesterday.
I heard a whoosh and a commotion behind, which was a female sparrow hawk catching her morning breakfast, which I later realised, was in the form of a Tree Sparrow, which she grounded just behind me- nothing exceptional about that, but she landed right next to a Cock Woodpigeon who was busy feeding.
At first I thought she had eyes bigger than her belly and was dropping on the Woody, not so however, the Woody set about the Sparrow Hawk and was knocking nine bells out of it, with its wings, ( we get rival Cocks boxing each other with their wings fighting over territory in our garden)
After about a minute or thereabouts of being pounded, the Sparrow hawk managed to fly off with the Tree sparrow still in its talons.
I’ve seen our local Mistle thrushes, beat up the Sparrow hawks and also relish in knocking them out of the sky, but never a Wood pigeon.
I heard a whoosh and a commotion behind, which was a female sparrow hawk catching her morning breakfast, which I later realised, was in the form of a Tree Sparrow, which she grounded just behind me- nothing exceptional about that, but she landed right next to a Cock Woodpigeon who was busy feeding.
At first I thought she had eyes bigger than her belly and was dropping on the Woody, not so however, the Woody set about the Sparrow Hawk and was knocking nine bells out of it, with its wings, ( we get rival Cocks boxing each other with their wings fighting over territory in our garden)
After about a minute or thereabouts of being pounded, the Sparrow hawk managed to fly off with the Tree sparrow still in its talons.
I’ve seen our local Mistle thrushes, beat up the Sparrow hawks and also relish in knocking them out of the sky, but never a Wood pigeon.