{"id":1727,"date":"2010-09-20T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1727"},"modified":"2013-11-10T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:06:36","slug":"sparrowhawk-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sparrowhawk-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparrowhawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The sparrowhawk is one of the most successful predators of small birds. During much of the year it will concentrate on taking fledglings, but sparrowhawks will take any weaker bird from a flock, and the larger females will easily take out a wood pigeon. This behaviour makes them one of the less popular sights among other bird species who will generally do their level best to see them off. Gulls tend to mob sparrowhawks in number, but corvids are relentlessly bold and a lone bird will often give chase. The aim is simply to drive the sparrowhawk to a more distant feeding ground.  It&#39;s not as risky a strategy as it might sound. Like many raptors, the sparrowhawk depends on its dive speed to catch prey. <\/p>\n<p>I took this short sequence over the garden this morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sparrowhawk_crow_1909109612.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sparrowhawk_crow_1909109613.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sparrowhawk_crow_1909109624.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sparrowhawk_crow_1909109625.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sparrowhawk_crow_1909109626.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sparrowhawk_crow_1909109629.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The sparrowhawk eventually gave up trying to defend the airspace, sweeping away in a steep dive to outrun its tormentor.<br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,980],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-birds-2","tag-sparrowhawk","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}