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This post is all about a incident i witnessed yesterday morning and watched with utter disbelief and shock .
I was up bright and early as usual around severn having a cuppa on my back door step then a large bird flew past me at speed carried on over to my shed roof picked up a Starling with ease flew over the road landed at the side of wheely bin and proceeded to disembowel the screeching Starling .
To say i was shocked was a understatement .
the bird the took off with the now dead Starling gripped in its Talons .
This whole episode took less that 2/3 minutes .
I had a decent view of the predator Barred tail dark back and upper wings with a light coloured breast with dark crescent shaped feathers on it also very bright yellow eye's .
My only guess as to what this bird could be is a Sparrowhawk .
I was surprised by this as i would have thought a bird of a starlings size would have been to large for it to take and kill with ease .
I may sound daft or i may be reading to much into the Sparrowhawks name that it would only take smaller birds such as Sparrows , Finches or Tit's ? .
I have had a interest in garden birds for years now with feeders and a bird table in our garden and recently i was over the moon that a pair of Blue Tits have taken up residence in a long redundant bird box .
Has anyone witnessed or heard about the incident i have described above and do members think i have got the identification of the bird of pray right ? .
The only thing i can say is it left me shocked slightly upset for the Starling but in aw of the bird who caught it with its speed and nimbleness in flight .
I was up bright and early as usual around severn having a cuppa on my back door step then a large bird flew past me at speed carried on over to my shed roof picked up a Starling with ease flew over the road landed at the side of wheely bin and proceeded to disembowel the screeching Starling .
To say i was shocked was a understatement .
the bird the took off with the now dead Starling gripped in its Talons .
This whole episode took less that 2/3 minutes .
I had a decent view of the predator Barred tail dark back and upper wings with a light coloured breast with dark crescent shaped feathers on it also very bright yellow eye's .
My only guess as to what this bird could be is a Sparrowhawk .
I was surprised by this as i would have thought a bird of a starlings size would have been to large for it to take and kill with ease .
I may sound daft or i may be reading to much into the Sparrowhawks name that it would only take smaller birds such as Sparrows , Finches or Tit's ? .
I have had a interest in garden birds for years now with feeders and a bird table in our garden and recently i was over the moon that a pair of Blue Tits have taken up residence in a long redundant bird box .
Has anyone witnessed or heard about the incident i have described above and do members think i have got the identification of the bird of pray right ? .
The only thing i can say is it left me shocked slightly upset for the Starling but in aw of the bird who caught it with its speed and nimbleness in flight .
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