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Sparrowhawks: Love or Hate?

Sparrowhawks: Love or Hate?

Sparrowhawks: Love or Hate?

Robert E Fuller


Love them or hate them, you have to admire sparrowhawks for their lightening speed and superior skill as hunters.

I've been studying one for a painting and I have mixed feelings about it when it takes birds from my garden. Read about my efforts to get it to comply as a painting model in the Yorkshire Post.

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