Brown Goshawk (1/15)

ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae

Accipiter fasciatus  

This Brown Goshawk, perched on a large fence post, is eating a small bird.

It was disturbed by my presence and flew off, taking the remainder of its meal with it.

I had a close look at the post and thirty centimetres down the hollow centre, quite inaccessible to the goshawk, were four tiny nestlings. I suspect that the Goshawk's meal was one of the parents.

The nestlings appeared to be House Sparrows and I have added a photograph of them to the House Sparrow page.