Cats often form the habit of killing birds (or mammals or reptiles)
and leaving them on a doorstep.
John Leonard
2008/11/12 david taylor <>:
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> Certainly a case for the fact that "two wongas dont make a right"
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> On 11/11/2008, at 10:06 PM, Alistair McKeough wrote:
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>> Steve asked me to post this so he could tap the collective wisdom of baus.
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>> "I was down in the beautiful southern highlands for a mountain biking
>> event
>> on the weekend. We were staying a mates place in Bowral, a rustic cabin
>> on
>> a property. I usually try to "switch off" from bird watching if I'm
>> mountain biking (can be a dangerous combination), but I couldn't help but
>> notice the two freshly dead Wonga Pigeons that had been placed at the
>> doorstep of the cabin we were staying in. I didn't have time to fully
>> examine them, but they were less than a meter apart, in good condition,
>> with
>> no tearing that I could see. While the cabin did have some small windows,
>> they were all covered with flyscreen and I thought it was an unlikely spot
>> to have two birds crash into a window at the same time. The only thing I
>> can think of is a fox or a cat. Foxes are in the area, and have
>> effectively
>> cleaned out the chicken coup over the last 12 months. But why would they
>> have killed these birds and left them on the doorstep uneaten? Any
>> suggestions on who the culprit might be?
>>
>>
>>
>> PS. My non-birding mate suggested that the Wonga Pigeons were in the
>> Wonga
>> place at the Wonga time. Highly amusing but not the answer I was looking
>> for."
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