No idea what we saw today. It was a raptor, that’s for sure. It was perched on the arm of a bench close to the bird feeders, then did the sparrowhawk thing of chasing after one of the sparrows, twisting in flight. Then it perched on the fence briefly, but I signally failed to get a photo. What puzzles us is what it was. If I had to compare, I say its colouring was not unlike a pigeon’s - slate grey wings and back and a kind of buff breast. No barring that I could see - we have had sparrowhawks in the past, and this was comparable in size but not colouring.
OTOH I do know that out front perched in the tree of the hedgerow opposite was a song thrush. It’s been singing there on and off since December. Delightful.