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I was scattering food on the ground ("No food onna stick for you! You're wild birds! Be WILD! Get off my head.") for the peewees and magpies, when a movement caught my eye. I looked into the neighbour's yard and saw a kestrel closing in low and fast. He was flying straight at me and using the aluminium fence for cover. I had enough time to register that he was hunting peewees just as he flew up and over the fence.

"I say old chap! Do you mind not hunting my birds?" I said* as I waved my arms. Peewees gave the alarm call and there was a flurry on black-and-white as birds flew into the trees. The kestrel looks surprised at me leaping and waving and pulled up in a tight turn, entering the sycamore tree at high speed. There was a crash, a lot of screaming and swearing in Raptor, followed by a shower of old sycamore seeds and small brown feathers. After a moment he flew off. The yard was very quiet; the only movement were spinning sycamore seeds and feathers settling on the ground.

The only way I will ever be able to document any of this on film would be to wear a webcam every time I step outside.

Shades of Last year




*When this comes out it sounds a lot like "AAAARGGH! GETTOWDAVITYABASTARD! AAAGH! AAGH!" with leaping and waving.

Date: 3 Dec 2006 04:46 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
Before I released my two I got them eating out of a dish in the cage by dropping the food in and using their food-stick to pick it us to give to them. Outside I did the same off the ground, and eventually they just picked up the food without the stick. At first I fed them all they needed and gradually reduced it so they had to hunt. Right now I feed them 3 times a day, plus there's a dish of mushy dog bickies in water for them to east if they want.

Date: 3 Dec 2006 07:37 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosequoll.livejournal.com
Sounds like a good idea. Pi had a blast today. Now it's raining buckets so I put ihm in his cage (outside under cover) so he doesn't get soaked or scared and fly off. I'll start tomorrow with teaching him to eat on his own. =)

Thankyou! I'm still learning. =)

Date: 3 Dec 2006 18:53 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goodluckfox.livejournal.com
Is your icon a bat? And is its nose pierced???

Date: 3 Dec 2006 21:44 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
Her icon is a quoll. With a pierced nose.

Date: 4 Dec 2006 03:06 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosequoll.livejournal.com
My icon is my fursuit (a quoll) and yes, nosepierced.

Date: 4 Dec 2006 07:11 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goodluckfox.livejournal.com
I don't know what a quoll is, and DAMN that is one realistic fursuit!

Date: 4 Dec 2006 07:13 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goodluckfox.livejournal.com
*googles "quoll"*

*dies of cute*

+.+

Up to 30 young??? The size of a grain of rice??? Oz=Another Planet.

Date: 4 Dec 2006 08:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
It's that kind of place.

Date: 4 Dec 2006 15:32 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosequoll.livejournal.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/Quoll

And thanks! =)

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