Peregrine falcon

[Tom McCrae]

While playing golf at Dulwich golf course 2 weeks ago we saw a peregrine flying around , then we were lucky enough to see it make a kill of a pigeon on the 16th fairway. While plucking the feathers of its kill it was mobbed by crows, the peregrine stood its ground for about 5 minutes before flying off leaving the pigeon behind for the crows

[Seabag]

It could have been a sparrow hawk

I?ve seen one at Tobacco Dock do the same thing

[EDmummy]

Saw a Peregrine flying low down my street about a month ago with a starling or some other similar bird in its claws, poor starling squawking as it got carried away.

[goldilocks]

Last year we weirdly had no squirrels - one of the neighbours said they'd seen some kind of hawk and maybe that had decimated the squirrel population - could be the same one, although the squirrels are back this year!!

[Sue]

EDmummy Wrote:

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> Saw a Peregrine flying low down my street about a

> month ago with a starling or some other similar

> bird in its claws, poor starling squawking as it

> got carried away.

I used to get loads of starlings in my garden.

A few years back one of them got carried off by a bird of prey, and since then I haven't seen a single one :(