Richard Johnson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have big patio doors, and once every 2 weeks, there is a
> hell of crash, a dazed pideon hits the patio and feather dust
> drifts down. Yes they are stupid. I don't play the crumb trick. My
> windows survive.
>
We have a visiting sparrow-hawk, which I think may be responsible for a
number of bird-window collisions. On one occasion I heard the crash
against my study window and was in time to see the sparrow-hawk
finishing off the blackbird it had been chasing, on the ground below. We
occasionally find little piles of feathers in the garden, and have seen
the "cowling" action of the sparrow-hawk after it's made its kill and is
presumably hiding it from other birds.
Last week we spotted a sparrow-hawk sitting in an exposed position in a
flower-bed. It allowed me to take a few photographs through the window
(including one with flash), and we think it may have been injured
(perhaps it crashed into a window too?). I went to investigate, and it
ran away in that curiously clumsy way they have - makes me think of a
hunch-backed old hag in rags scuttling away. Eventually it ran into a
corner and was forced into flight, but it landed in a nearby tree and
rested for several minutes before flying off again.
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Michael
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