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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.

  • 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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