Female Eurasian Sparrowhawk with Magpie prey, Little Gransden, 10th March 2007, © Adrian George. Large female Sparrowhawks are known to regularly take sizeable prey including birds up to the size of Woodpigeons. This Magpie was clearly a big challenge and put up quite a fight, eventually giving up the struggle after some two hours. During this time the Sparrowhawk seemed oblivious to Adrian as he photographed this grisly spectacle down to ten feet! (JL).
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