Sparrowhawks mating !

This afternoon on Tooting Bec Common (Bedford Wood) we saw a very large female and the small male Sparrowhawk flying through the wood, the female clearly holding a mouse in her talons;  as she chewed on the mouse in the high branches of a beech tree the male mated with her for a very few seconds, she just carried on eating, then he stood next to her and let her get on with eating the mouse; a magpie disrupted them and they parted, she went to a higher tree and finished eating the mouse, which looked very tough. It was a really close, detailed sighting for over 20 minutes, also lots of green and great spotted woodpeckers, includng a very little one that could have been a lesser but had red which discounts that theory. Only one Egyptian Goose chick left now sadly, he is big with the beginnings of proper wings. moorhens were trying to drown each other, rather a disturbing sight, nature red in tooth and claw today..