Back Garden Hunter

[nick crisp]

Wow. That's something you don't see too often in your back garden! Just stepped outside to have a quick fag, and disturbed a Sparrowhawk that was busy ripping up it's prey on the patio! Judging by the somewhat bloody feathers now scattered around, I think it must have taken a pigeon. I've seen one dive onto a small bird in the garden before while I was quietly sitting outside in the evening earlier this summer, but I must have nearly trodden on the thing this time!
Anybody else had such encounters on their doorstep?