A dramatic event here in middle Melba this afternoon: I stepped out
the back to check which small birds were drinking/bathing in our ponds
when a loud "thwack" alerted me to a young Grey Butcherbird which by
then had a young Superb Fairy-wren struggling in its beak.
It landed within a metre of me, continued to try to rearrange the
wren but dropped it.
The struggle went on out of sight under bushes with shouting cries
from the other wrens who breed here.
I wonder what happened.. The butcherbird is sometimes heard singing
here but it was a swift, silent attack.
Bron King
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