Heh, my bad. It looked weird as I typed it so I should've spelled the whole
thing out or looked it up in Anoraks to Zitting Cisticolas. As for how the
Collared Sparrowhawk got at the birds it remains something of a mystery. Likely
the male reacted as he used to to any perceived threat by waddling up and
hissing with open beak. The bars of the cage are quite wide , fully 20mm, but
it's still a testament to the agility and persistence of the predator that it
could get two birds in a cage hanging from the underside of a shade-cloth
roofed pergola. I managed to get a decent shot of the killer bird today which
I'll put up probably on ABID.
Cheers Tony
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Some good birds around Brisbane
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:08:56 +1000
> From:
> To: ;
>
> Hey, not fair, it took me ages to work out what BiFCuS is. If you use
> abbreviations you have to get all the letters right:)
>
> Peter Shute
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > On Behalf Of Tony Eales
> > Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 1:35 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Some good birds around Brisbane
>
> > When I got back home to the Brisbane
> > suburb of Virginia there was young Collared Sparrowhawk in my
> > backyard being harassed by miners, butcher birds, BiFCuS, PH
> > Rosellas and ultimately by me trying to get a photo.
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