Sparrowhawks

Sparrowhawk

The other birds can see it before I can. They’re up in the air in a mad panic, flocking into a defensive …

I adore Sparrowhawks. I stumbled upon this one in a tree and it was always going to spot me and fly off. …

A Sparrowhawk has just flown over my shoulder. There are seven Hooded Crows in hot pursuit. It heads into the large pine …

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We’re at Newton Abbot Quay again for a daily walk. Something has to be done, given the amount of pasta we’re eating. …

In July I went walking with my son on Dartmoor and he took a rare portrait of me Walking the Hunters’ Path: …

I’ve been to Start Point before. I came here with my son one morning, very early, and took photographs in the fog. …

The Sparrowhawk is of shadows made
No Earthly dust was used to bring
This death that on smoked wings arrives
And cracks the air open with a dance

I can recognise a Sparrowhawk flying now: flap-flap-glide, flap-flap-glide. It’s a distinctive pattern. I saw one as a child from a train …

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