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2 Coal Tits at peanuts - first record for my garden since February!
Also - Mon, Tues, Wed. 3 lunchtime visits by a couple of sparrowhawks.
Monday - female S.H taking Alpha Male House Sparrow circa 12:30 PM. Consumed on top of privet hedge, with me taking a good close look at the hawk consuming the kill through the telescope from my bedroom. When it had gone, I went out to the kill scene to study the various feathers which the S.H. had plucked off to see if I could work out which feathers went where on the bird.
Tuesday - a juvenile S.H. decided to pay the garden a visit at about 14:00. Paused on top of privet taking a good long look at a 'petrified' Collared Dove that dared not move out of fear of being the next S.H. casualty. The high-tension stand-off was fascinating! Again, it provided me with a very good opportunity to look through the scope to familiarise myself with juvenile S.H. plumage. S.H. did not succeed in acquiring kill, and flew off to the west.
Wednesday - Fleeting visit by the juvenile at 12:45 PM. Took away a female House Sparrow. No chance to get scope on it.
I've decided that, despite it being a grisly sight, I have decided to adopt the policy that Big Cat Diary and Springwatch do towards their avian and mammalian subjects regarding sparrowhawk visits. The policy of non-intervention and simply letting nature take its own course.
Plenty of activity today aside from the Coal Tits. Visitors today were Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Starling, Jackdaw, Blackbird, Dunnock, Collared Dove (10 at one point!) and 1 Woodpigeon.
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