2 days of sparrowhawks....

yes, in the UK...

The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk.

What you might not know is its name is derived from accipiter, meaning 'hawk', and nisus, the sparrowhawk. Now then, according to oooooold Greek mythologoy, The King of Megara, Nisus, was turned into a sparrowhawk after Scylla, his daughter, cut off his purple lock of hair to present to her lover (and Nisus' enemy). Daughters eh!!!!

This one lives nearby my garden, and pops over for lunch on the tits etc around my birdfeeders...but this time she had a much bigger prey...a greater spotted woodpecker.

look at the prey wings sticking through the wings of the raptor!