scribblansDrama out by the laurel bush near the feeder station this morning as a female sparrowhawk surprise attacked (and missed) a lucky great tit. Then she hovered above momentarily then dived into the bush lower down to have a little explore inside it.
Two sparrows departed at high speed, no doubt with adrenaline pumping, while she was in there. Then I could just see her tail as she decided to wait awhile and see if anything came to her. It didn't after three or four minutes of waiting, so obviously feeling the gig was up, she was on her way.
In other news, J has made some feeder/water dish things for the garden which we are testing at home first. We've seen the first use of both this morning after putting them out two days ago. Sadly, nothing bloody using it while I had the camera trained on it for a quarter of an hour.
