The Sparrowhawk gets more cocky.

The juvenile Sparrowhawk that is visiting our garden is getting outrageously bold because he doesn’t care about anybody, especially us. I was watching him through a window of our house as he was perched on the front garden fence and I could see the postman coming down the lane in his van. I thought that he was sure to fly as the van passed below him about ten feet away, but he just looked at the post van with distain and carried on sitting on the fence.
Sometime later he appeared at the back of the house chasing birds around the shrubs and he landed on a small wooden fence which is a border to a gravelled area. I thought I’d open the back door a small bit to test him out and he didn’t blink an eye, so I opened it wide and stepped forward until I was literally about six feet away from him. I expected him to surely fly off, but no he just stayed there looking at me, so I raised my camera with my Sigma 150 – 600 zoom lens attached which I had carried out just in case. A big prime lens would have been no use at all, he was just too close. I fired off a few shots and he just posed there with no fear whatsoever, I couldn’t believe it, then after a while he got bored and he continued chasing the birds again – I was astounded by him!
I don’t think this brazen attitude will continue as he becomes more street – wise, but I’m making the most of it while it lasts!!