Garden Bird Pictures
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only that Purple-crested Turaco
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Two stunning birds Leachy!!
The ghbs is a bit of a bad number, in a good survival way, but still an awesome bird to photograph!!
The ghbs is a bit of a bad number, in a good survival way, but still an awesome bird to photograph!!
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What are you doing in bed at that time of a school day!?
Didn't know we had such big earwigs in town...all the bugs are big here!
BTW...did you see that thick-billed crow floating about here a couple of days ago? Never seen them in Nellies!
Didn't know we had such big earwigs in town...all the bugs are big here!
BTW...did you see that thick-billed crow floating about here a couple of days ago? Never seen them in Nellies!
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Re: Garden Bird Pictures
thanks flutters...Flutterby wrote:Wow leachy...so lucky to have these in your garden!!
thank you steamtrainfan....steamtrainfan wrote:Lovely photos - thanks leachy.
yip nan... only that...nan wrote:only that Purple-crested Turaco
eish sprocky.. "a bit of a bad number" is putting it mildly....Sprocky wrote:Two stunning birds Leachy!!
The ghbs is a bit of a bad number, in a good survival way, but still an awesome bird to photograph!!
richprins... what on earth is a thick-billed crow ???Richprins wrote:What are you doing in bed at that time of a school day!?
Didn't know we had such big earwigs in town...all the bugs are big here!
BTW...did you see that thick-billed crow floating about here a couple of days ago? Never seen them in Nellies!
do mean the white-necked raven ??? cause i have seen and heard a few recently......
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Re: Garden Bird Pictures
so it was on monday that i first heard them..
squawking outside my spare room window.
i had observed them here briefly this time last year
but just in passing.....
this is the happy couple
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and my first photos of them foraging (or so i thought)
they had what seems to me to be the paper nest of either a wasp or a cocktail ant
and i thought it might be for nest building...........
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seems not..
as i have since learnt that their nests are built entirely of twigs
so it appears that the pupae in these nests are also on the menu of these shrikes.....
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Awesome shots leachy!!!
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what a chance
nice pictures
nice pictures
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now i have no idea which is the male and which is the female.........????????
then after cleaning his bill on the tree
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it was time for a kill.........
here you can clearly see the prey...
a newborn chick
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they then slap it around on the branches
similar to the modus operandi of the kingfishers
and then they find a suitable spot between two branches
where they wedge it securely and start tugging it into more manageable size pieces..
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once they have managed to tear off something
they start devouring it or they fly off to their nest in a nearby tree
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and return later to the "pantry"
while the flies take the opportunity help themselves a bit...
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here we see the little feet of his his next victim.....
a gekko...
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