Yesterdays visitor

[venetta]

I think he's a goshawk, reasonably big he was.. Sparrowhawks are smaller.

He hasn't returned, so I'm hoping the feed was just too hard to get!

[Pete Sara]

or the weather was a deterant....fingers crossed.... pete

[finchbreeder]

Most of those we have had up here over the years have been identified on catching as Goshawks, with the occassional "Chicken" hawk. Interestingly enough most are also the big females, with only occassional smaller males. It seems if the territory is well supplied with flying snacks the bigger more aggressive birds claim it. Or really determined and hungary small ones.
LML

[Redwing]

Looks like Juvenile Brown Goshawk Venetta.For the last 5 or 6 years we've had the parents visit to snack on doves and a few weeks ago saw our first young one (think they bred at Pete's old workplace), who came every day while his parents were obviously teaching him.
Hopefully if there's no easy pickings at your place he might move on soon

[venetta]

Well he's not been back...

A lady I work with lives just off Canning Hwy in Vic Park and has said they've had sparrowhawks in her yard as they find feathers strewn across their yard now and then