Bird of prey
Feb. 22nd, 2023 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anefI glanced out of the kitchen window this morning and saw a bird of prey perched on the back of the garden bench with its back to me, about 20 metres away. Its head was facing sideways so I could just see an eye and the curve of its beak. I rushed off to find my phone and got a series of very bad photos - I couldn't find my camera. Its back was was grey with small white patches on its shoulders, and there was a tawny fringe of fluff just on the outline of its silhouette, where the wings folded against its front. Looking at the bird book I think it was a sparrowhawk.
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Date: 2023-02-22 06:06 pm (UTC)The most exciting thing I've ever seen in my garden is a jay, and that was 20+ years ago.
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Date: 2023-02-22 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-23 07:18 pm (UTC)In 1630, the Sparrowhawks arrived in Cambridge Mass. from Dedham England in time for daughter Anna to marry one John Cooper, also an immigrant and also from Dedham. And these are my 11th-great grandparents.
K.