Sparrowhawks

I saw a sparrowhawk take a bluetit then the very next day one captured a pigeon in a tree,feathers everywhere.I believe that this was probably a female hawk as it was a bigger bird can anyone confirm?
14:37 Fri 20th Apr 2012
 
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http://www.rspb.org.u...parrowhawk/index.aspx

Any help it sounds like it though
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Thankyou for coming back rowanwitch link supplied answers my query.
We regularly have Sparrowhawks sitting on the fence in our garden...normally the female (brown and bigger), but sometimes the male. Luckily, most of our small birds have learnt that if they hide in the hedge, they can't be got at!, though I did once see the female come down and take a Starling off the bird table. She just hit it and carried on to the lawn. I think her speed killed the Starling more or less instantaneously. All part of nature.
Magnificent birds though, are'nt they

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