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I was working from home today. This afternoon I looked out of my office window and I see this female Sparrow hawk. She had swooped down and grabbed a pigeon. She was sitting in the middle of the garden looking rather annoyed that her lunch had a lot of wrapping. I was watching her for about two minutes plucking out the mass of feathers.

I tried to get a better picture, but scared her away, she picked up the pigeon in her claws and with a couple of wing beats was up and away to eat her lunch in piece and quiet.