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Life and death in the garden

I photographed a sparrowhawk catching, killing and eating a starling in the garden today. Well, the killing and the eating kind of overlapped. As you can imagine the starling was not too happy about this situation and made a lot of noise.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 5:30 pm and is filed under birds, photos, food, nature, big things, best. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Life and death in the garden”

  1. watari Says:
    April 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Seems like our garden is becoming a bird’s community centre.

  2. rich Says:
    April 19th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    Have you eaten the living fish in Japan?

  3. M-kun Says:
    April 20th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Any pinguins yet in your garden?

  4. rich Says:
    April 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    No, and no ducklings either unfortunately.