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Beautiful female, Rutland's CJ7:
The hoped-for partner for CJ7, local male LS7, has not yet appeared. CJ has been tending the nest daily and yesterday she took everyone by surprise, producing an egg - which took us by surprise by surviving... until midnight at least ;)
IMAGICAT
Thank you for that info, ALISON - what a lovely video, too
Great to see you, PATILY - but you'll be long gone now
The Stock Dove returned, it was there "a long time" - I can't show you the fly-in because the stream was SO glitchy for a lot of the time yesterday, but here's some to show how curious s/he was about ??? It was very windy!
06 February
The sun's come out and is melting the frost:
The crow was supposed to have a quizzical expression but it's not showing up
08 February
S/he picked this up from around to the left and toyed with it for a while but left it behind:
As per title, and I'm gutted
Pity it's such a dull morning.
Kind regards, Ann
Unknown said:Initial guess, Sparrowhawk, female (or 2020 juvie?)
Thank you very much! That's where I was leaning, GardenBirder, but, as so often, I couldn't find illustrations/pics that gave a close enough resemblance. I'm sure RICHARD will know.
I was thinking of a Merlin at first glance going by the markings, but looks far too big for that. I will opt for a 1st winter Sparrowhawk, but got a few wrong lately.
Richard B
Thanks, Richard and Scylla, in addition to its plumage, it was its behaviour, a bit skittish and fidgety unlike the adults which seem to sit fairly still while they intently study their surroundings, that made me think it might be a young bird.
Edit: I did wonder, too, about other raptors including Merlin, I've never seen one and when I looked at the RSPB Birds A-Z, if you can believe the drawings, it seems the markings on the front of a Merlin go the wrong direction on a Merlin while on this bird they go across the breast/tum, not vertically up and down, as it were, in the jargon!
Unknown said:I did wonder, too, about other raptors including Merlin, I've never seen one and when I looked at the RSPB Birds A-Z, if you can believe the drawings, it seems the markings on the front of a Merlin go the wrong direction on a Merlin while on this bird they go across the breast/tum, not vertically up and down, as it were, in the jargon!
Exactly what I found, GardenBirder. (RSPB in particular is very disappointing.)
Looks like you're not wrong this time, Richard (and I don't believe you often are!)... I've had an unequivocal comment on YouTube "Juvenile sparrowhawk"... from a gamer, by the look of his few uploads, how about that?!
The sun broke thru quite a lot during the morning but I had to catch this guy with his face out of the cam's shadow: