General Chat

Know that I have your attention, I should explain that yesterday our back garden was the scene of the above activities

We were just having breakfast when OH looked up and asked what the bird was that was sitting on the back lawn, or where the lawn would be if we had one.

I looked over and replied that it looked like a hawk or a falcon. I then took a longer look and in its talons was a dove. We have a few doves that frequent the garden and in spells of bad weather they shelter under a smallish bush that we have growing.

This dove must have moved at the wrong time and was killed by the hawk.

We went to chase the hawk off, and giving us a look of utter disdain it scooped up its quarry and flew off.

A little later we were shifting some wood to get it under cover before the next front moves in when we noticed two bronzewings going at it hammer and tongs. Not a care in the world and almost in the very spot where we had seen the hawk earlier

The circle of life keeps turning :-D :-D

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Better than the cinema!

I was going to video it but my wife said that was a perverted idea :-0

I could have made a fortune selling copies on eBay ;-) :-D :-D

And bronze wings are?

A type of pigeon, Sharron

https://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/common-bronzewing

Both doves and bronzewings are frequent visitors to the garden and a few years ago we had several doves nesting under the carport roof.

I am pleased to announce that we now seem to have frequent visits of a jay family to my garden

to go with pigeons collared doves squirrels, various tits. thrushes .blackbirds...magpies, etc

while Alan mentioned violent death, and Sex

I found the mating of Peregine Falcons interesting... especially the changing of partners (after one was found dead)at the Nottingham nest the successful hatching of only one out of four eggs, the loneliness of it being the only chick in the nest....


as opposed to the hatching of four chicks at Salisbury,. the constant fetching of prey, and final fledging of all four.....but the aftermath of the carnage on that balcony......but such is life, I supposel