"Caught Out"

[OzoneVibe]

Sparrow Hawks? Taking a sparrow off your bird feeder?
I couldn’t get the camera in time for the kill, but it lingered for ages eating its quarry.

The Great Big Non-Drone Video Thread

Chance in a million … This juvenile, female, Sparrow Hawk helped herself to one of the sparrows on the bird feeder, and then settled on the wall for her picnic. Already in view through the patio doors, I gently moved to get my camera … hoping not to disturb her. No time to adjust settings, and hand-held with a long lens with DaVinci Resolve doing an excellent job at smoothing out the wobbles. Annoyingly, I’d zoomed in too much for full stabilisation … mainly because these clips were in betwee…