JDog Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) Edited May 28, 2019 by JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 nope dont want to watch that....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 Last week watching exactly the same thing outside my front door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 legal or not legal.............that blackie would be toast on my patch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 Well done mother duck! I once reared some ducklings under a bantam, no way would that crow have got so close to her, it would of died if it did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 I was sat a few weeks ago watching a hen and drake chasing herons away from their ducklings. Yesterday two.pigeons chased a magpie away, that's the first time I've seen pigeons do this. Shows just how much we do be if it's the little birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strimmer_13 Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 Watched this one nail a sparrow in flight. Didn't know they did that tbh (behind post on right, wasn't quick enough with the camera) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustaff Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 seagulls cleaned up blackbird chicks in our garden well done pratham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 Years ago on a sloping suburban street i watched a pair of crows decimate what looked like a recent hatch of 5/6 starlings. Systematically working downhill disabling their prey by maiming each one in turn to stop escape then returning to mop them up. Very efficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFC Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 Some years back I was flying RC planes at my local club. Just to the south was an Ash tree full of woodies and squabs. A Buzzard started circling the tree. Two or three Pigeons flew out of the tree and started flapping near it to distract the Buzzard. In the meantime several adults and squabs flew out of the other side of the tree and went to a nearby wood. A couple of the adults hung back and started flapping around the other side, thus distracting the Buzzard to the other side of the tree whilst the original two or three plus several squabs flew away to the wood. This was repeated several times until all the Pigeons escaped and the Buzzard was left circling an empty tree. Another day on one of my permissions I saw a murder of Crows decimating a covey of Partridge chicks. They'd killed the lot before I could get close enough to scare them off. Well done Mrs Duck😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 Well done the duck. The other side of this particular episode is that I have frequently seen a pair of crows completely wreck magpie nests and take all the fledglings . The aerial battles with the magpies are something to see, but the crows always win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 13 minutes ago, Cranfield said: Well done the duck. The other side of this particular episode is that I have frequently seen a pair of crows completely wreck magpie nests and take all the fledglings . The aerial battles with the magpies are something to see, but the crows always win. I was canoieing in the Tay and watched a heron pick off goosander chicks which I thought was pretty good for the salmon, well for that day at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 1 minute ago, henry d said: I was canoieing in the Tay and watched a heron pick off goosander chicks which I thought was pretty good for the salmon, well for that day at least. Yep if they want to help the Salmon runs the authorities could start by authorising the control of avian predators the sawbills such as Goosander, Mergansers and the Cormorant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 They are (or were when I last did it) limited to a handful on the entire Tay system which is collosal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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