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Post by Jane on Apr 25, 2015 11:42:35 GMT -7
A Sparrowhawk was in my garden today. It caught a small bird, plucked it, then moved it away from the pile of feathers and ate the lot.
Jane
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Post by Haz on Apr 26, 2015 9:07:54 GMT -7
I'm glad I didn't see that.
Last summer a hawk grabbed a dove in front of our house. It flew up to the roof with it so I didn't see the messy part.
Haz
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Post by lenke on Apr 29, 2015 1:31:33 GMT -7
we have two resident peregrine falcons, an african goshawk and an african marsh harrier (gymnogene) that share (well, kind of...) the huge norfolk pine in our neighbours yard. They frequently come grab breakfast, lunch & dinner (and all the inbetween tea's etc.) from the wild birds feeding at our seed feeder.
my most recent fosterling, Charlie Brown (2 year old male yorkie) has taken it upon himself to chase these buggers away. I laugh at the boy because the birds just fly up to teh top of the norfolk, wait for him to come back inside, and then come back for more....
The silly thing is, though, the wild birds, while doing their normal avoidance flying, KEEP COMING BACK, and its not as if they're that hard pressed for food either...everyone in this town is a Bird Nut (thats' one of Stanford, Western Cape's claims to faim - the birding).
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Post by wesselg on May 24, 2015 2:32:17 GMT -7
Lenke,
It could be that the birds nest in the area and have chicks to take care of.
Because I also dispose of my birds' old food in a bird-feeder I have a few regular "customers" among the wild population that will actually perch in nearby trees and wait for their breakfast. It always seems to be the same ones, or at least the same species.
Wessel
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nastyparrot
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Post by nastyparrot on Oct 4, 2015 23:44:04 GMT -7
These are the pretiest bird i ever found in the world. These birds live in throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements
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dragua
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Post by dragua on Jan 15, 2016 13:15:38 GMT -7
we have two resident peregrine falcons, an african goshawk and an african marsh harrier (gymnogene) that share (well, kind of...) the huge norfolk pine in our neighbours yard. They frequently come grab breakfast, lunch & dinner (and all the inbetween tea's etc.) from the wild birds feeding at our seed feeder. my most recent fosterling, Charlie Brown (2 year old male yorkie) has taken it upon himself to chase these buggers away. I laugh at the boy because the birds just fly up to teh top of the norfolk, wait for him to come back inside, and then come back for more.... The silly thing is, though, the wild birds, while doing their normal avoidance flying, KEEP COMING BACK, and its not as if they're that hard pressed for food either...everyone in this town is a Bird Nut (thats' one of Stanford, Western Cape's claims to faim - the birding). Ease of food supply.
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