Is it safe?

• 19 Mar, 2009
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I was stood just a few feet away but this hen blackbird still ventured out. I'm pretty sure she is nesting in our hedge, they're always around.

An almost-sighting today was a sparrowhawk - I only glimpsed it as it disappeared under the hedge, then there was a commotion from the starlings in the huge fir tree nearby. I discovered the remains of the hawks breakfast at the end of the garden - a pile of feathers and what looks like the skull from a starling (better than a blackbird!)