Wednesday 2 February 2011

Lunch visitor

After lunch, I was preparing a hot cherry stone bag for myself to stay cosy (cherry stones instead of wheat) when I looked out of the kitchen window to see this little girl having her lunch break.

SG102460 Lunch visitor

This female sparrow hawk was merrily ripping the feathers off her prey and I watched her for a while before I cuddled back up on my comfy chair with my cherry stone bag.

She made my day.

10 comments:

Dan said...

You can tell if it was a male or female by the size of it's prey.

Females being the largest of the species go for larger birds. Even pidgeons on occasion.

Louise said...

I find the colour helps too, the male is more grey on top and the speckles on it's chest, the female more brown. Size is a little tricky to judge when the other bird is shredded!

Anonymous said...

"it's"? Those dreaded apostrophes get everywhere don't they :-)

Louise said...

The chest of it, possessive, therefore it requires an apostrophe? I'll have to check with mother now, for peace of mind...

Anonymous said...

Nope, wrong in this cse...it's is abbreviation for "it is", no apostrophe for possessive its...

Louise said...

Really? Shucks. I need to be less possessive!

Anonymous said...

LOL. Well done on a fab blog by the way - very amusing, interesting and informative. Great photos too.

Louise said...

It's surprisingly good fun.

Anonymous said...

It's a window into another life for those of us stuck in suburbia on the treadmill of work, sleep, work, sleep...

Dan said...

I was wrong and you are right (anonymous). I blame it on writing too fast!+