StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: hawk

We had a surprise visitor - a Sparrowhawk. (Accipiter nisus) From the size & colouring, I suspect that this is a male. He perched on the birdtable roof, but stayed only a few minutes before flying off at some speed. I managed to get just a few images ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_sparrowhawk I'm taking the appearance of such an apex predator as a sign that there is a good small bird population locally ...

We had a surprise visitor - a Sparrowhawk. (Accipiter nisus) From the size & colouring, I suspect that this is a male. He perched on the birdtable roof, but stayed only a few minutes before flying off at some speed. I managed to get just a few images ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_sparrowhawk I'm taking the appearance of such an apex predator as a sign that there is a good small bird population locally ...

Sparrowhawk having a breather on top of the bird table / feeder. We had a surprise visitor - a Sparrowhawk. (Accipiter nisus) From the size & colouring, I suspect that this is a male. He perched on the birdtable roof, but stayed only a few minutes before flying off at some speed. I managed to get just a few images ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_sparrowhawk I'm taking the appearance of such an apex predator as a sign that there is a good small bird population locally ...

We had a surprise visitor - a Sparrowhawk. (Accipiter nisus) - looking straight at the camera ! From the size & colouring, I suspect that this is a male. He perched on the birdtable roof, but stayed only a few minutes before flying off at some speed. I managed to get just a few images ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_sparrowhawk I'm taking the appearance of such an apex predator as a sign that there is a good small bird population locally ...

We had a surprise visitor - a Sparrowhawk. (Accipiter nisus) From the size & colouring, I suspect that this is a male. He perched on the birdtable roof, but stayed only a few minutes before flying off at some speed. I managed to get just a few images ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_sparrowhawk I'm taking the appearance of such an apex predator as a sign that there is a good small bird population locally ...