At last I managed to catch a photo of the Sparrowhawk that has been lurking in the garden since the autumn. This beautiful bird is quite shy so photographing it has not been easy. Today it sat still for half a minute until it noticed me. The photo is not so bad considering the heavy snowfall and the soiled window panes.

This is probably a young female. The Sparrowhawk is a vagrant in Iceland and has probably come here from Scandinavia.