My only view of a bird being beheaded was when a cat crept along a low fence-line and with a fast dash-and-leap neatly decapitated a juvenile blackbird, its lifeless body falling from its perch, the cat making off with the head.

In the last week I’ve come across 3 decapitated Wood Pigeons on our estate. None had been plucked and the bodies were intact. The first had its head a short distance away; the other two had no visible signs of the head! The last one was on the pavement right outside the local park and had just been killed by the look of it. There are lots of Wood Pigeons on the estate and I have seen Sparrow Hawks about but I have never noticed this trend before!
Is this the work of a Sparrowhawk do you think?