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19-08-10, 02:00 PM
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Help Needed with this Sparrowhawk.
Taken this morning at College Lake. I'm pretty sure this is a sparrowhawk, but he looks, well, odd. The eyes and legs are very intense, is it a juvenile or time of the year?
  
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19-08-10, 02:24 PM
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I would agree with a juvenile Sparrowhawk, Peter, but don't take my word for it.
 I had a very young one land on my garage roof a few years ago, it's mum perched in the conifers not too far away from it, I reckon it had not long fledged. It feathering was a very mottled black/grey and white, you can see that on your Sparrowhawk in the last pic. I will see if i can find the pic out sometime. A nice find, Peter. Edit: Great pics too!
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19-08-10, 02:38 PM
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Wonderful images Peter,well done!
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19-08-10, 04:43 PM
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Well Done Peter......super photo,s
Regards Mike
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19-08-10, 06:57 PM
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Thanks Mike, and my apologies to the ladies who came in the hide this morning, I said it was a Hobby, which at first glance I thought it was. She seemed pleased with that anyway.
Last edited by PeterB; 19-08-10 at 07:09 PM. Reason: can't spell
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19-08-10, 08:15 PM
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ADULT MALE SPARROW HAWK, drying off from a bath. Its moulting time for raptors, note new feathers. Colout of nostrels legs and eyes, with the slate blue back ADULT.
Last edited by MIKE THROWER; 19-08-10 at 08:18 PM.
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