Published on the 09 February 2014
A rattle of alarm calls and a blur of wings sees an explosion of small birds away from bird tables and hanging feeders, writes the BTO’s Mike Toms.
Seconds later and a sparrowhawk swoops through the garden, shifting its course slightly to miss the apple tree and to lift up, over the fence, and away. The sparrowhawk is a relatively new presence in this urban garden, a sure sign that the population has recovered from the impacts of agricultural pesticides, like DDT, that brought about significant population declines across the eastern counties, just a few decades ago.
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