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Whair's the burds?
fords - number 1 all over heaven Started conversation Jul 22, 2007
Fighting in my mum's garden, so it happens!
We live in a fairly rural area and my mum lives in an old farming village, so I've seen lots of wildlife and its happenings as I've grown up. However, tonight was a first even for us.
My mum and I were standing in the kitchen and looking into the back garden when a kestral landed - with a young blackbird in its claws. The poor wee thing wasn't dead and we could hear its cries, when all of a sudden mum and dad blackbird and started swooping the kestral! The kestral just stood there and looked right at all of us (by then we'd shouted everyone through to the kitchen) as if to say 'yeah, and?'. It finally got fed up of being swooped at and took off, with the blackies in hot pursuit, while we just stood there going 'wow! How mad was that?'. You really don't see a sight like that every day!
Whair's the burds?
T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Jul 23, 2007
Kestrals wouldn't be stupid enough to fly about round here, the Corbies and the Ravens would tear them to pieces...we watched a mating pair of corbies kill a herring gull almost twice their size the other day...that was fun 
Whair's the burds?
Baron Grim Posted Jul 23, 2007
The mockingbirds and bluejays do their part around here. I've seen them take on large hawks. I especially like watching bluejays dive bomb cats (and I like cats).
Whair's the burds?
fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Jul 24, 2007
One of my sisters said that we were cruel to watch all this and we should have shooed the kestral away, but we told her if she was that keen she could do it. Personally, I wouldn't be too keen on shooing away a hungry bird of prey..
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