Cat or fox?? Carnage in our front garden ??

I once saw a sparrow hawk or red kite - not sure which as there are both around - demolish a pigeon on the pavement opposite the house.

My cat is sadly an accomplished hunter. He will eat his kills unless we manage to save them

I've had the same in my garden, a few days running - then I saw a sparrowhawk hunched over a pigeon on the 3rd day.

I've always had cats, over the years, but not one of them ever plucked a bird.

I think young starlings too. I have several families of starlings in my garden every year.

Just listened to bird sounds and yes, I think they are juvenile starlings which is interesting as they hadn't been seen here for a few years.

I have a flock of birds in the garden which I can't identify - brown, smaller than a blackbird, larger than a sparrow, pecking away at ants.
They don't look like starlings as they're not shiny. I've never seen them before.
Does anyone have any ideas? I tried the RSPB identification site without luck.

Birds are prey which cats eat for food supply.

I watched in horror this morning as next door's ginger cat suddenly pounced from under a shrub and took a juvenile blackbird that was pecking for worms nearby on our lawn. I didn't have time to do anything about it.

We have sparrowhawks here and they also prey on birds but they have young to feed too. The cat just kills for pleasure.

I'm just about to order a soaker gun!

Sounds like a cat a fox would have taken the carcass away.

we have had quite a few casualties, I throw the carcasses under the hedges. I thought it might be rats or weasels

I don't know but I saw a sparrow hawk chase a pigeon then demolish it on the lawn apart from a few feathers. It didn't leave any mess to clear up, thank goodness.
Another time a dead pigeon was left whole on the front doorstep, apart from its crop being open and a pile of corn spilled out.

Either of the above they both hunt and eat birds or possibly a sparrow hawk we had one bring a dove down on our lawn and then proceeded to eat the poor thing.