The Lincolnshire Bird Club

at south somercotes to day coming home a barn owl caught a mouse and sat on a tree to eat it when a sparrowhawk tryend to eather to take its food or it was after the owl the owl took off in to field then whent out off sight . will a sparrowhawk go for a owl to eat it or was it trying for the food , can any one tell me . got the camare out got some shots of it still to look at hopeing the will be good shots . john lusby thank you

Hi John,
On a couple of occasions I have seen a Kestrel going for a Barn Owl which was carrying a prey item but I have never seen a Sparrowhawk do it. I would suggest it was after the prey rather than the Barn Owl.

thank you for the reply looking at the photos last night it was 4pm it lookend more like it was a kestrel know not a sparrowhawk . thank you john lusby .

Talking about sprawks..in the last few weeks a few people have told me they've had a sparrow hawk in there garden & not noticed one before..every time I replied - I've never "noticed" one in mine...until today when one was sat on the garage (where the sparrow's roost in the ivy) are these sighting's purely coincidental or are they on the uprise or venturing further afield for prey ?
Season's greeting's to one & all.

As previously recorded on this forum, I have twice seen kestrel rob barn owl of prey in flight. I have also seen female kestrel drive female sparrowhawk off prey on the ground. I think your robber probably was a kestrel.
Hope this is of interest.

John