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Mar. 9th, 2004 04:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksTwitchers horrified as hawk eats rare robin
Birdwatchers waited for two months to catch a glimpse of a rare American robin, then watched as a sparrowhawk swooped down and ate it.
The Daily Mail reports the robin went thousands of miles off course from its American migratory path, and ended up nesting on an industrial site in Grimsby.
The rare songbird was one of only a dozen ever spotted in Britain.
As thousands of twitchers focused their cameras to capture the sight on film a sparrowhawk swooped down and snapped up the robin for its dinner.
Graham Appleton, of the British Trust for Ornithology, said: "It was a terrible moment. The bird did not live to enjoy its moment of fame."
