A PENSIONER had a surprise after hearing a bang and finding a smudged outline of a bird clearly visible on her kitchen window.

Tess Greaves said she thinks the bird was a sparrowhawk, which she has spotted previously in her garden.

Mrs Greaves, of St Mark’s Road, Blackburn, said: “At first I thought my husband had fallen because there was such a noise.

“Then I went in to the kitchen and saw the very large mark on the window.

“I think it had seen the ornament in my window and thought that it was a real bird sitting there.”