Hey folks,

I hope you’re not getting sick of the bird photography, because today I’ve got another local feathered resident, the sparrowhawk.

Judging by the colours, this is either a female or a juvenile bird. It was attempting a rather ill-considered go at grabbing a blackbird, which is not that much smaller than it, so I think it was either a juvenile still learning how and what to hunt, or possibly just a little bit desperate. As the name suggests, they usually hunt sparrows.

I first saw one of these birds at my back door when I lived in a very urban part of Glasgow – it’s not uncommon to see them nesting on high rise flats in UK cities. This little one was at the back door of my current flat, which is a lot more rural, showing the variety of habitats they will live in.

Grim as it is, the best way to attract sparrowhawks is… to feed the local sparrow well. I try not to think about that too much when I’m filling up the bird feeder in my garden 😬

Thanks for visiting,

Kaylin x