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RED IN BEAK AND TALON

My wife and I were woken up at 6am last Sunday morning to loud screeching coming from our back garden.

Upon investigation, a hawk had caught a jackdaw and was trying to dispatch it on our flat garage roof. We had an excellent view of the attack from our bedroom window just above the garage. We didn’t want to interrupt for nature’s sake.

The hawk wasn’t much larger than the jackdaw and the fight went on

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