Easily the best capture of bird behavior I’ve gotten, very happy with this!

Just a picture I took earlier this year. It was drinking from the cut open bamboo stem.

Mid July. Rutland Water, UK.
Black beak curves down. I would guess roughly the size of a Black-headed gull.
Just wish it had stood up!

A red robin aka gardener's friend in northern Scotland

I don't know what the top of this raptor looks like, the closest I've ever gotten is where they perch at the top of this tree. I can tell they have a mostly white belly with black (or dark brown?) feathers along the wings edge. I wish they would have called when I got this video, but not this time. I live well within city limits, so this is an urban setting, although in a small-ish rural town, so not a bustling area. I have become quite fond of them, they regularly return to this tree and I would love to know what kind of raptor my neighbor is c: I am not sure, but thinking perhaps a Swainson's Hawk?

https://files.catbox.moe/tf27f3.mp4

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We've never seen this breadth of species in a single day before. Of note, no one was home/around the property all day.

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I hope this community doesn't mind a bit of "bird listening" data!