Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus nisus) male.jpg

File:Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus nisus) male.jpg, featured

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Accipitriformes#Genus : Accipiter
•  Info A lunchtime visitor to our garden, enjoying his pigeon. Two current FPs, one feeding. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:07, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:07, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Superb quality, and the contextualised surroundings, while not very nice, make this image interesting and informative. Cmao20 (talk) 15:36, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support This is really great to have an eye like yours to watch, capture, and bring these wild action scenes here. Could you expand a bit the description on the file page, so that we understand better what's happening? -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:57, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --LexKurochkin (talk) 09:06, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 09:11, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Трифонов Андрей (talk) 12:48, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Could someone explain to me what happened here please? --Wilfredor (talk) 13:23, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

• The sparrowhawk grabbed a pigeon and brought it to ground, killing it and eating it in front of our kitchen window. Photo taken though a closed glass door. Charlesjsharp (talk) 14:53, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

  Please, could you add date and time of the shoot in the exif. Thanks Wilfredor (talk) 15:02, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

• I forgot to update camera clock. Shows Australian time!. Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:57, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

  I understand you, I had a similar problem in Europe, there is no easy way to do this Wilfredor (talk) 23:01, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

  Unless of course cameras are able to connect to satellites. --SHB2000 (talk) 08:15, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

•  Support JukoFF (talk) 20:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent action shot. There's noise on and around the bird's tail feathers; I leave it to your discretion whether to do anything about that or leave it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:46, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks, new version uploaded. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:40, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

•  Support Excellent shot! You do a great work in showcasing birdlife from around the world, but it's great to see a bit of an insight into your home area (Oxfordshire?). --SHB2000 (talk) 08:01, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Thi (talk) 09:36, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 18:48, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support and props to your window cleaner. BigDom (talk) 01:42, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Terragio67 (talk) 22:46, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 10:11, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent shot and great educational educational value. --Gyrostat (talk) 15:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
•  Oppose I'm inclined to oppose due to feather arrangement. Wolverine XI 21:31, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

The sparrowhawk or the pigeon, please. What are you meaning by arrangement? Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:48, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

•  Support --Giles Laurent (talk) 20:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:11, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Accipitriformes#Genus : Accipiter