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Poor Blackbird
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Every day and every evening we were serenaded by the lovely song of our local blackbird up on his telegraph post, then yesterday morning we woke to silence, we found a patch of black feathers on the lawn, and not a bird in sight, the poor chap has been snatched by the damned hawk, such a sad day, one minute singing his little heart out, the next sudden death and his mate left to cope alone, but its an ill wind as they say, other birds are already taking his feathers away to line their own nests.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We've a sparrowhawk which perches on the TV aerial of our neighbours and regularly takes birds around the area and I must admit it's beautiful in a morbid way to watch it in action.Trish however hates it with a passion since it ate one of "her" bluetits,I think if I let her have the key she'd be staked out with the .410 looking for revenge.
I once had a sparrow hawk fly into my living room window with a blackbird in its mouth, I always wondered if he was just being greedy as one my cats was lying on the window sill (on the inside) and maybe fancied him for dinner too! Happily, the blackbird was dropped and got away - serve him right for picking off all the little songbirds he had been feeding on.