ChatterBank2 mins ago
Lord Knows Why Me
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I have spent the festive holiday at Big Sis' in the countryside. Part of my daily duties was to feed the wild birds. On Christmas Day morning I checked all the feeding stations were topped up and decided to put some food on the front lawn for the ground-feeding birds. I mixed up some general seed with a generous helping of pumpkin seeds.
I broadcast one big handful on the lawn. As I prepared for the second great scattering I was amazed to be hit on my extended arm by a sparrowhawk going at some speed. It had swooped over the hedge and I can only assume it was attracted by my movement. I stood there with my mouth open and watched the bird fall nearly to the ground, then climb high over the gate and make off down the side of the house banking considerably as it disappeared.
As Big Sis said afterwards, 'No harm done, the sparrowhawk managed to fly away'.
Thudddddd
I broadcast one big handful on the lawn. As I prepared for the second great scattering I was amazed to be hit on my extended arm by a sparrowhawk going at some speed. It had swooped over the hedge and I can only assume it was attracted by my movement. I stood there with my mouth open and watched the bird fall nearly to the ground, then climb high over the gate and make off down the side of the house banking considerably as it disappeared.
As Big Sis said afterwards, 'No harm done, the sparrowhawk managed to fly away'.
Thudddddd
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Ladybirder - you deprived that poor sparrowhawk of its hard-earned dinner! 'Nature, red in tooth and claw'. ttfn, As no-one else has bothered, I will - Never mind the b bird - did it hurt your arm and if so how is it now?
22:29 Thu 03rd Jan 2013
