wasnt alive then :emoticon-0136-giggle: so be impossible too see them just because there was not as many as them around does not mean they did not take pigeons It was written in 1870 that "The Sparrowhawk is perhaps only the true enemy of the game-preserver; though at the same time it is probable that if the good and evil it does were justly weighed, the balance would be in favour of the hawk, its favourite quarry being the Woodpigeon, all the way back 1870 unless you were talking about 1600s lol