This winter's sparrowhawk is a juvenile. It is the eighth winter in a row in which a male sparrowhawk has come to sit on this perch outside my window. In early autumn I got a glimpse and one photo of an adult but ever since it has been this first-winter bird. To start with he was playing hard to get by sitting in the wrong place.
I also saw him under a blackcurrant bush with a kill.
I knew he had been here because on some days almost no sunflower seed was taken from the feeder. Eventually I was watching at the right time and he sat for quite a while, preening, stretching and fluffing up his feathers.
On another day the sparrowhawk took a kill up to the perch to eat - something I haven't seen before. I expect it was trying to protect it from a magpie.
(Can't seem to sign in with my Google account) - I'd like to use one of your bee photos in a book, how can I contact you? Paul dot Honigmann at gmail dot c0m
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