Sparrow hawk gets a starling

The bird was in my garden for over an hour before it was scared off by a cat, you can hear the "alarm" calls from a robin who saw the cat.

Notice it started to pull the feathers before it had killed the starling?
The very next day we had our first snow, so I bet he was glad for a full belly that day.

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Pets & Animals

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• Starling
• bird
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• prey
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• Bird Of Prey

[zuditaka]

Beautiful photography. (How long did this take to upload with your "free and unlimited" broadband. How come it's "free"? Just curious. Do they have ads everywhere, or something when you browse?) You've certainly got the skill--as a nature photographer. This film is a sort of meditation. Liked the slow motion wings at the end. Just like on the Attenborough nature shows, and stuff.

[HubSwitch]

@zuditaka

The file was about 1.8GB in size and took about 10 hours to upload.

I wondered why you were asking about "free and unlimited" - no all paid for here! where did it say that Georges? I pay about £35 a month which includes my phone bill.

Theres two "slow motion" points, one near the start, and at the end when the cat scared him off. If I had better equipment I am sure I could do something quite good, well at least it would be sharper in definition! it is a nice angle here thou.

[zuditaka]

@HubSwitch Oh, I see now! It was a kitchen timer or wall-clock--obviously a gift promotion from some internet service provider!!!!! Silly me! I just checked.

[HubSwitch]

@zuditaka

OOOOH!!! THAT Clock!! hahaha!

That is years and years old! I am sorry I just didnt make the connection.

Freeserve was the UK's first "free" Internet service provider, all you had to pay for was the telephone connection, as it was modem connection it was quite slow I started out proper with a 9600 baud modem for PC work, and a 300 baud modem for the use with an Amiga 500+ going wayyy back!

The freeserve "clock" is actually the CD Rom from freeserve placed on a clock.

[zuditaka]

@HubSwitch Hmm. I see!

[zuditaka]

@HubSwitch I thought I saw some round signs in your latest breadmaking video that said free and unlimited broadband or something. Anyhow, it's amazing how you can slow down the bird, in flight. Leonardo da Vinci could do that, in his own imagination, to figure out all about birds' flight, and how it was done. He did it before slo-mo video was invented. Very clever of him! I'd like to do that--with a camera--with the cockatoos that always fly over, here, and observe them in "slow" flight!

[karenchakey]

Everybody has to eat don't they! Nice upclose vid!