This is the central business district of our small bird feeding operation, where fat, sunflower kernels, peanuts, niger, and mixed seeds are available to customers from a variety of dispensers - free - twenty-four hours a day, but yesterday afternoon it was suddenly deserted.
The cause is sitting to the left of the above picture, a....
....very smart sparrowhawk, visiting what it considered to be the centre of its feeding operation, and was in no hurry to move on.
The lack of small birds didn't seem to worry it. It sat for about twenty minutes, enjoying the sunshine and waiting for lunch to make a mistake,
None of the small birds did make a mistake so the sparrowhawk seemed suddenly to give up, and moved to another spot which is particularly popular with some of our small birds, the chaffinches and house sparrows - the bird bath. By this time....
....the very unwelcome visitor was being carefully watched, from a safe distance, so it moved....
....back to the feeding area, finally giving up and flying off round the side of the house.
I was hoping you were going to show us a picture of him on the peanut feader :)
ReplyDeleteI suppose that's the sort of thing that can be easily done using ChatGPT to doctor the picture!
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