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I agree. It’s a female Sparrowhawk. But it’s isn’t the yellow eye that tells me that as both Sparrowhawks and Peregrines have yellow around the eyes when adult.
Also I’d like to mention that Buzzards are actually quite effective predators. I’ve seen them take young Rabbits, Grass snakes, Voles and once even a singing Skylark, caught in flight.
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a singing Skylark, caught in flight.
Suddenly brought to mind "O for the wings, for the wings of a dove" abruptly cut short mid-song - can't place it in my childhood memory, is it from a cartoon?
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Look at the google images of eyes for peregrine and sparrowhawk though it’s actually the little dart of pale colour above the eye that suggests to me it’s a sparrowhawk though I don’t get close enough to the ones I see regularly out of my window to be 100%.
hoefla
Mr_Smyth
Buzzards do not take out pigeons as carrion is their meal of choice
thats a sparrowhawk. the yellow eye means it’s not a peregrine.