A Second Visit from the Sparrowhawk

Drama this morning at our garden feeders: one of our grey squirrels was feeding on peanuts when a sparrowhawk swept down from our house roof and aimed itself straight at the squirrel. At the last moment, the squirrel turned to face its potential nemesis, at which the hawk veered away into the wood. The squirrel dropped down from the feeders and remained stock-still for a few moments before scampering away. I've no idea whether a sparrowhawk would normally take something of the size of a squirrel, but this one was certainly prepared to have a go. Whether he had been perched on our roof waiting for something worth taking a pot at, or whether he had simply swept over the roof and down at the feeders in the hope that something might be catchable, I don't know. In the latter case the bird wouldn't necessarily have been aiming at the squirrel as such; in the former case, it would have.