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Waiting for the bus in Blackett St, I noticed a crow approach a dead pigeon, and proceed to pluck it prior to having a snack. They're not called carrion crows for nothing. The other pigeons seemed unperturbed.
McChurch
Well, no-one
likes a mouthful of feathers.
Bentonbag The first bird I
noticed having a go was a herring gull pulling the body about, but it obviously
saw I was getting my camera out and flew off. Either that or it realised not even it could
swallow that much in one go. Not that long ago I spotted a magpie swallowing, whole, a
mouse the cat had left on the lawn.
McChurch Gulls tend to go for the quick gulp approach because, I
suppose, they are programmed to eat on the wing at sea. Bored sailors of my acquaintance used to
entertain themselves by seeing what they could fool gulls into catching. They like sardines but the bird I saw catch a
tin of same, circled round and dropped it on a startled `tiffy on the SeaCat
deck.Smarter than you think.
Bentonbag Sorry my knowledge of naval lingo is inadequate: what's a
'tiffy?
McChurch
Artificer
(Tech Guy). He was servicing a missile
launcher.
For years he told people a
bird dropped a tin of sardines on him and they all pretended not to believe
him. He ate the sardines
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