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Quote: Originally posted by OliverDay on 23/2/2013Talking of birds of prey - there seems to be quite a few Cougars about at the moment.

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Hi

We have one in our garden too.Comes most days and grabs a bird to eat and sends the rest wild.I know it is nature but I feel sorry for the victim

What fantastic pictures, thank you for sharing! 

I used to have a female sparrowhawk visiting daily - until a buzzard moved into the neighbourhood and started going for her dinner.  Then they both moved on whilst building work went on closeby so the regular garden birds got a break, except from the cats.

Had a real fright last summer though when coming up garden path from lower patch of jungle when a peregrine zoomed right close to me homing in on a pigeon . Normally they would sit on the spires of the old church on Main Street and then panic the pigeons that used the ledges of the building but they'd been displaced from this haunt by repairs. Main Street used to get blocked by bird watchers at their skills and it was getting normal to find feathers and blood on the pavement and cars. But who would deny these stars their food?

With spring hopefully not too far away, I'm getting just slightly anxious as a pair of ravens are eyeing up a potential nesting site on land next to me; this is not going to be good news for the regulars.