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Niels.hr.Hansen

Niels.hr.Hansen

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Sometimes you walk for hour, gets cold, and tired but you don't get a shot. Today was quite the opposite. I was summoned to the window by my wife, and there just 5-7 meters into the garden was a sparrowhawk. I succeeded to squeeze open the window and pop out my lens without scaring the hawk, even the clattering of the D850 did not annoy it.
Sparrowhawk with an almost whole house sparrow

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Sparrowhawk with a house sparrow
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Sparrowhawk with a dispersed house sparrow
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Niels.hr.Hansen said:
Sometimes you walk for hour, gets cold, and tired but you don't get a shot. Today was quite the opposite. I was summoned to the window by my wife, and there just 5-7 meters into the garden was a sparrowhawk. I succeeded to squeeze open the window and pop out my lens without scaring the hawk, even the clattering of the D850 did not annoy it.
Sparrowhawk with an almost whole house sparrow

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Sparrowhawk with a house sparrow
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Sparrowhawk with a dispersed house sparrow
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Nice capture! It looks like a Coppers Hawk. They have had a meal of several of my backyard birds.
 
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jeffnles1 said:
Thanks. Cool bird. Looks a lot like our Coolers
Or sharp shinned hawks. Good to know the European version. Appreciate the info
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The confusion arises with common names (not that I have a clue about most of the latin ones). For instance, American Kestrel used to be called the Sparrowhawk, but it's always been Falco sparverius. If you don't know what country the photo was taken in, it can be hard to ID.
 
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No doubt that if you want to have a secure reference to what animal we are looking at, you should stick to the Latin name as it is surely unique and given according to scientific guidance. Sometimes the popular name is misguiding or ambiguous
 
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