What’s doing this in my garden?

[pargyle]

It’s had the breast eaten out.

Sparrow hawk then .. a fox would not hang around to eat some of it - they take the prey away, hide it and then come back for any they kill and can't carry ...

 

[RJC]

Sparrow hawk then .. a fox would not hang around to eat some of it - they take the prey away, hide it and then come back for any they kill and can't carry ...

a sparrowhawk will pluck the corpse; there's always loads of feathers on the ground.

 

[fullframe45]

Owls will take heads off roosting birds.

 

[Ian48]

It’s had the breast eaten out.

Classic sparrowhawk kill, they do exactly the same in our garden, usually happens quick as a flash, if it’s too big to take on the spot they just pick the breast out and leave, they rarely return for the rest.

 

[Darryl]

doing what?

Not a lot so it seems.

 

[philipm]

Last week when I was working in the shed there was lots of noise outside from a flock of crows ,when I went out to investigate it was a Peregrine Falcon that had taken one of the Crows. There has been Falcons nesting on the MOD site in Aberporth for years.They have cleared an over population of Magpies and are now moving on to other things just wish they would wipe out all the Pigeons.