Alas,
I begin today's blog with some saddening excitement. I was looking
out of my window and spotted a bird in the tree with plum plumage and
it wasn't a wood pigeon. As I watched, I saw it had a small sparrow
for prey and was ripping feathers out. Later on, I looked the bird up
to identify it online, as none of the birds of prey resembled it in
my 3 bird ID books, and the blue stripey part reminded me of a jay...
...which
is what it turned out to be. I had no idea that jays ate small birds
until I researched them. I have never seen one in our yard before,
only in other people's yards when out walking. I got a good shot of one of my
wood pigeon friends standing on the sill later on.
It
was soon back to peace and serenity in the tree and yard, as July
entered its second week I caught sight of Ditty and partner lazing
away on a branch. Bubster-Pidge did a hide-n-seek act on me, but was
not very successful, as you can see...
Ow, the poor sparrow. :(
ReplyDeleteNature red of tooth and claw. It's normal and natural, but at odds with what we want to derive from nature.
seems to be a lot of losses lately - not sure if the jay has moved in or if its the sparrowhawk.... i often hear screams of 'oh no, it got me'
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