"Anticipation"
There were a couple to target species I had in mind for this weekend and one of them was a Sparrowhawk...and a male bird would be even better. Waiting, waiting, there's plenty of woodland bird action but not the bird I'm after, surely with the amount of Chaffinches and tits around the feeder it's only a matter of time before this super fast "bop" zooms in try's to grab some unsuspecting individual.
After what seems like an age a bird flashes in from my left initially in too quick to recognise, its a Sparrowhawk and a a male at that...wow !...don't panic Mr Mainwaring. It lands on a post, now it's just lucky that I'd change the camera lens seconds before to something more suitable, the camera shutter goes off...bang in silent mode grabbing all the action sequence.
With several camera's shooting all at once the bird is aware of our presence but is more interested in something on an adjacent post and hops over to investigate, after no more than a minuet the Sparrowhawk is off and would have been so easy to have missed the action, in fact looking back at the entire weekend this would be my only encounter with a bird that would be on most peoples bucket list.
With a bag full of images I'm pretty happy, time to relax at a more leisurely pace...Target number 2...tick
Sparrowhawk
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