A bird between blackbird and pigeon in size. It has a red or pink head underneath shows white bars and longish tail. It's dive bombing my window bird feeder close to city centre in the northwest uk. Does anyone know what it is? It doesn't keep still long enough to photo!
This photo which I think is very close in colour to the one I saw. Its a little bit darker on it's back. Could I have mis-identified the peregrine? I don't know how different or similar the 2 birds are!
Here is a Sparrowhawk and a perigrine
Perigrine
this is a Sparrowhawk
Sparrowhawks arnt uncommon. But just to make sure I understand with the dive bombing the feeder are you sure it was divebombing the feeder?
Our ;local stuffed bird enthusiast has at least two examples of Sparrowhawk window strike in his black museum. Both are males and supposedly died of a broken neck So there may be an odd chance that a Hawk may be our missing bird
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
Are you suspecting the missing bird that has the odd chance of being a hawk might be a Sparrowhawk?