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Early lunch completed, sitting in the conservatory listening to to TMS.
Bit of scrapy noise, quite normal as some birds choose to land on the plastic roof,
and then access the rain water that accumulates in the guttering.
The shadow/part silhouette is not the expected pigeon or mapgpie shape,
it appears to have two sections and one is making a desperate noise.
I manage to make it outside without disturbing it,
and,
witness a sparrowhawk flying away with a lbj* in the talons of one foot.
[* technical twitching term for indeterminate, normally small,
little brown job].
Never seen a sparrowhawk round here before, but presumably it normally frequents the not that distant municipal golf course.