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Have been trying to get photos of the sparrow hawk that visits my garden with a kill, got plenty on the fence, for years only had a few poor ones of the sparrow hawk in the neighbours garden at dusk. Well this afternoon, had been working in garage with grandson, walk into kitchen there was a squeal and there she was finishing off what I think is a blackbird.
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What a beauty! I get them in my garden, but they normally just flash by low and fast.
And its a male in your pic Alan. The females are more gray and much bigger.:)
 
Lucky day.

Lucky day.

Well Alan m8 very good footage of your video/s and the sparrow hawk is beautiful bird to watch and im sure there must be a breeding pair there as its unusual to see 2 hanging around the same area and have you looked to see if there isa nest there with young m8:D:D:D:D:D
 
Nice going Alan - just goes to show it always pays to have your camera to hand! Were the stills taken from the videos, or did you have two cameras on the go?

Gary :)
 
g-force said:
Nice going Alan - just goes to show it always pays to have your camera to hand! Were the stills taken from the videos, or did you have two cameras on the go?

Gary :)
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I never had me camera at hand but snapped this last year in the back garden from behind the patio window on me mob-

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Always wondered what it was like, could it be?

Canny picture quality like eh!:D
 
jameswlong1941 said:
Well Alan m8 very good footage of your video/s and the sparrow hawk is beautiful bird to watch and im sure there must be a breeding pair there as its unusual to see 2 hanging around the same area and have you looked to see if there isa nest there with young m8:D:D:D:D:D
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yep there are two of them always, and see the adults and young quite often during the year, but as yet never found where they nest, looked all around the local NR but nothing. Gary took some stills then videoed a bit then some more stills and so on, used the same camera. When in the house my 550d is on the tripod in the lounge with a mains cable ready for any action and my 300d is lying on the kitchen table, always ready these days but still miss more than you see.

Have seen a merlin twice in garden over the last three years, and an ornithologist along road has also seen it, but never got a photo. The last time it sat on the fence for a while but behind my wifes favourite rose bush (that's going) so didn't get shot as I moved for better view it was off, thing that would of made it an incredible photo was, a hard and a half away on the fence where two wood pigeons, no doubt they know they where to big for the merlin. But will get it one day, might be another three years, also had a peregrin a couple of years ago during early spring when they start their migration up the east coast before crossing to kielder, never got a shot of that either, hence now lawyas prepared.
 
Nice pics Alan. Had them in my garden twice but been gone before I got back with the camera.

Fishing Portpatrick couple of years back and when we got back to the van we watched a peregrine teaching a young one to take prey, great to watch. Often see them around Dunskey Castle. Went up with the little one a month or so later cameras at the ready but never saw them.
 
when I showed the wife the photos and videos she said indignantly "did that happen in my garden" she probably would of been out chasing it, what good that would do I don't know.
 

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