I was taking the dog through a local over-grown meadow. There are rough grasses and patches of brambles and thickets of hawthorn. The dog scented a fox and ran into the undergrowth, shortly afterwards a large dog fox ran across my path not five metres away, then almost immediately afterwards, there was a screaming bird. A blackbird was being pursued by not one but two sparrowhawks, a female closely followed by a male. They went past me at high speed just ten meters away. The blackbird safely reached a thicket and the hawks flew over the top.
I have never previously seen anything like this and wonder whether there was an element of cooperation or whether simply the two birds went for the same prey.
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