RAPTORS
I HAVE spent the larger part of my life enamoured with the sparrowhawk. Because my father was a known birdkeeper, we were a magnet to anyone who found an injured bird, no matter what species. At the age of 11 I opened the door to be presented with a limp female sparrowhawk. I knew it was a hawk (my 10th birthday gift had been the ), but little more. I examined her. Apart from blood around the nostrils, there appeared to be no other damage. After a couple of minutes she began to come round. It turned out she had flown into a window and knocked herself out cold. Since then this has happened many times, though I have not had a case for 10 years. Are the birds becoming more savvy?
