Bird ID help please

[Pippin2017]

Does anyone have any ideas what this bird is. It looks like several species of bird of prey but the 'trousers' are confusing me a bit.

Google suggests Eurasian sparrow hawk

I think it's a sparrow hawk. There are lots of youngsters of all kinds of bird about at the moment as they spread their wings, and juvenile plumage isn't always the same as adult, which can be confusing.

Thinking more kestrel than sparrowhawk, but how big?

It's a sparrowhawk

Sparrow hawk, we get them here quite often looking for birds to eat, more often on a cloudy or rainy day for some reason & they will even hide in the hedge and wait for a chance to pounce on some poor unsuspecting bird.

Yes, probably Sparrowhawk, but difficult to tell if it is female ( spar) or male (musket), the females tend to be larger.
Unfortunately the pictures are a little indistinct and it could, just could, be an immature Peregrine

It's a Sparrowhawk.

It looks like a Sparrowhawk. Download the Merlin App - you can find out which birds are in your area. It's quite a fascinating app.

I wondered about peregrine due to legs, but it's too big - it definitely had the look of a juvenile, whatever it is - I've had a look at pics of juvenile sparrowhawks and it looks pretty close so I'll go with that!

We have buzzards around regularly but I've never seen a sparrowhawk this local before.

Many thanks for all your responses.

It’s definitely a sparrowhawk.

Based on the fuzziness of the image I'd say it's bigfoot.