Northern Goshawk

Today (23rd April) I spent apart of the morning looking at ducks at Muruvik on the south side of the Trondheimsfjord. After a very satisfying few hours I headed back to the car park. Just metres from the car I saw a large bird sitting on top of a pile of feathers. The large bird was an adult female Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis (N=hønsehauk) and the pile of feathers was all that was left of what was once a Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (N=stokkand).

Northern Goshawk (adult female)

 

Remains of a male Mallard killed by Goshawk