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Unusual bird on my bird table.

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    #11
    Originally posted by RasputinDude View Post
    Isn't it some type of kite?
    Common Kestrel from the photo.

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      #12
      Not a kite.

      I'd go for sparrowhawk.
      Good image here Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk (Accipiter rufiventris) » Planet of Birds

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        #13


        "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
        - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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          #14
          Unusual bird on my dining room table.

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            #15
            Originally posted by cojak View Post
            And this one is a female Sparrowhawk...

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              #16
              Originally posted by Toastiness View Post
              And this one is a female Sparrowhawk...
              It likes pigeons too...
              "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
              - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                #17
                Originally posted by Toastiness View Post
                Common Kestrel from the photo.
                I'd go with this too.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Old Hack View Post
                  I'd go with this too.
                  Probably more likely to see a Sparrowhawk than a Kestrel hunting for birds in gardens, and a male sparrowhawk (smaller than female) can resemble a Kestrel.
                  Easiest way to distinguish them without photographic evidence is the eye colour.
                  Yellow iris -> Sparrowhawk
                  All Black -> Kestrel

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by Toastiness View Post
                    Probably more likely to see a Sparrowhawk than a Kestrel hunting for birds in gardens, and a male sparrowhawk (smaller than female) can resemble a Kestrel.
                    Easiest way to distinguish them without photographic evidence is the eye colour.
                    Yellow iris -> Sparrowhawk
                    All Black -> Kestrel
                    As both photos demonstrate. Thanks Toastiness
                    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                      #20
                      Kestrel has yellow eye lids doesn't it?

                      I live in Rural Somerset and we get them all in the garden, including once, a mahoosive great big buzzard picking something out of the paddock.

                      Just to add, I can see Cojaks one is a Sparrowhawk, but that the one in the OP looks like a Kestrel to me.
                      Last edited by Old Hack; 7 January 2013, 11:18. Reason: Clarification

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