SPARROWHAWKS AND RING NECKED PARAKEET- 2/10/13 garden sightings

A reasonably good day although being cloudy and with a heavy rain shower. Sightings, as usual on a week day, any time after 15:40.

Trees

• 1 blue tit
• 11 gold finches
• 1 wood pigeon
• 2 collard doves
• Corvids

Flying over

• 50+ common gulls (morning) with a few more in the afternoon
• Black headed gulls
• Lesser black backed gulls
• 1 buzzard
• Corvids
• 2 female sparrowhawks
• 2 swallows
• Starlings
• 10+ wood pigeons
• 1 pied wagtail
• 1 grey wagtail- Flew over calling

Opposite house

• 1 lesser black backed gull in winter plumage
• Starlings
• Feral pigeons

Garden

• 1 SPARROWHAWK female- 1st for garden and landed on the fence. Two flew in very fast and one landed on our fence while another female landed on next doors trampoline. 
  
   Next doors female which was on their trampoline net
  
  
  
  

Our female/juv bird

Other news

• 1 RING NECKED PARAKEET- 1st I've ever seen in Berkeley but flew from, I think, a bush and flew very fast past the hall and over a charity shop before disappearing. I didn't further look for the bird but hope it'll make an appearance around our garden.