Halfway through our birdwatch a sparrowhawk came to sit on the wall. No other birds for 15 minutes!
My sparrowhawk came In the last 5 minutes and went away Just as two red kites flew over my garden .
I had barely been five minutes into the watch, when the sparrowhawk came visiting. It missed its stoop, but everything went dead for 20mins. It was just starting to pick up again, when it came back for another go!! So my bird-list this year looks a little sparse!