There's a white sparrow (not albino) on p3 of the Mail this morning.

Interesting.

We hardly ever see sparrows in this part of the world any more. In Paris they are still very common I noted.

My morning alarm has been a sparrow hawk for quite a few months now, which could explain this problem, although they mainly seem to eat blue tits and incredibly they can take a pigeon completely out of the sky in an instant for lunch. A very cruel bird, they pluck their prey whilst it is still alive and I often find the circles of feathers all over the place where the hawk has lunched.

I am still intrigued by a bird from my hols that I have failed to identify. It was definetly a falcon, but it was the fastest one I had ever seen and smaller than our kestrels.

Whilst on birds, I can never see an owl as a bird. They seem to be an independent species to me, more like a flying sort of dog!
A barn owl hit my windscreen once on the M25, it scared the life out of me! (cracked the screen as well)It was like a ghost and inevitably became one that second.

Sparrow hawks. One lived in Belmarsh Prison when I had a cell there on the exercise yard and one day I was looking out of the window and SPLAT - a hawk shot out of the sky straight at a pigeon's head, killing it instantly and then ripping it apart and devouring it while it twitched.