Disaster!

Our beautiful male sparrowhawk is dead, killed because we didn't act when we should have done.

Close readers of this blog will know that this sparrowhawk nearly died back in February when he collided with one of the glass panels which surround our balcony - see post here. Following that, we put decals on the glass and this seemed to have the desired effect - certainly the number of small birds braining themselves on the glass fell to almost zero.

Unfortunately, we didn't have quite enough decals to put on all the glass. We should have bought some more to put on the two remaining ones but the panels involved were furthest from where the small birds had their feeding station, so we left it.

This is the result.

Not everyone is in mourning but I feel deeply responsible for what has happened.