Confident Sparrowhawk.

We have had a Juvenile Sparrowhawk visiting our garden for some time and I’m not sure whether it’s a male or female. It’s difficult to tell at this stage but it looks quite small so perhaps it’s a male. If it is he’s getting very confident and last week he perched in a small apple tree right by the side of me. He is still perching on the garden fence as in a previous blog when I shot him on a very wet day. Yesterday he was there again only this time he was dry, I thought that because he was so wet last time he couldn’t be bothered to fly away and this time he would be more wary. However, it’s obvious now that he doesn’t care about me watching him and I took more shots as he just perched there looking at me with distain. It will be interesting, if he continues to visit us, to see whether I am right about him?