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I had a look to try and delete one but I couldn't see where it had been entered twice. I will use my stereoscopic viewer to get the full effect.Placido wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:50 pm It's come on twice again - I don't know how to erase one. Sorry.
It might have been a cat as they will leave a great deal of mess.Butterfly wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 12:21 amThat might be Jack, and I thought that woddy is a bit bigger than their usual kill, but I suspect woddy is dead by the amount of feathers there was lesf behind, it really was a lot of feathers. I can't be sure it was Sprawk though, I was just guessing. Is there any other bird of pray that would go for a big target such as woody?Jacksparrow wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:39 pmThere may have been a strike but not necessarily a kill. A Woody is at the upper end of what a Sprawk will take on and then only the female.Butterfly wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:27 am I can't be sure, but I think a sparrowhawk was in action this morning. When I looked out the window I saw my garden full of wood pigeon's feathers, literally all over the garden. RIP woddy
That did cross my mind, but there was no blood or any remains, just a lot of feathers, it looked like they were plucked. We will never know for sureJacksparrow wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:14 pmIt might have been a cat as they will leave a great deal of mess.Butterfly wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 12:21 amThat might be Jack, and I thought that woddy is a bit bigger than their usual kill, but I suspect woddy is dead by the amount of feathers there was lesf behind, it really was a lot of feathers. I can't be sure it was Sprawk though, I was just guessing. Is there any other bird of pray that would go for a big target such as woody?Jacksparrow wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:39 pm There may have been a strike but not necessarily a kill. A Woody is at the upper end of what a Sprawk will take on and then only the female.
) , not happy 
. She was in the garden exploring for the first time 
They make a lovely couple 
How romantic. A shaft of daylight amidst the gloom.Butterfly wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:36 pm My Robin found a sweetheart finally
) in her garden early yesterday morning. Her son-in-law is a birder and she 'phoned him - he said it certainly sounded like one from her description.