den: (cranky)
den ([personal profile] den) wrote2006-01-20 11:03 pm
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Goshawk 3, den 2

Looks like the young goshawk also had a go at the rosella in rehab, unless that bird spontaneously developed a broken wing and back injury. I had to euthanase it. I don't think the injured blackbird chick will survive. The raptor also had a go at the last peewee in rehab but he was smart enough to hide under the end covered with a towel. I only have the peewee and one blackbird chick in good health now, buggrit.

And I think the neighbours lost some budgies from their aviary. There are a lot of green&yellow feathers in my garden.

[identity profile] tatterdemalion.livejournal.com 2006-01-20 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
*hug*

[identity profile] walkertxkitty.livejournal.com 2006-01-20 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Bad goshawk, no biscuit :P I'm sorry you've had to euthanize so many and I'm hoping you can keep the rest in good health until they can leave. Nature seems unreasonably cruel sometimes.

[identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com 2006-01-20 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The peewees will inherit the earth.

[identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com 2006-01-20 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Despite it being a right bastid for going after trapped prey, it's a *smart* goshawk bastige. And it's doing what they do, but the easy way:P. Too bad about the nieghbors budgies. when I was home last visit a great big sparrowhawk sat on the low branch of my folks crabapple tree in the back yard. Object: doves and other fry who might approch the now permanently empty feeder.

I haven't seen much hawk activity because it is winter here, but I do see them on the favorite aerial tower half the time I do look. High spots attract predator bastiges.

[identity profile] beki.livejournal.com 2006-01-21 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Well, crap :(

[identity profile] annvole.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I lost some pet rats one time and could not figure out how they got out then I found a Least Weasle stuck in a rat cage with too full a stomich to excape... problem discovered! But the sneaky mustlid managed to evade my capture and so I had to move all the rodents to a new location (I thought that place was mouse proof but this smallest of carnivours can squeeze through cracks even mice do not bother trying)