Close encounters of the Hobby kind
My partner is a rescuer/ carer with Wires
specialising in small birds.
A few months ago we spent 4 weeks hand raising
a brown thornbill from a tiny fluff ball just a few days old
This is a huge hands on effort with feeding
every 15-30 minutes.
At 4 weeks it was ready for "slow release",
flying well but still nervous and hanging close to us.
We were at our Capertee property, but were going to do
the final release back in the Mountains that afternoon
where it had come from. One last wing stretch before the
trip back.
Bird is sitting in a bush about one foot from my head
and about one foot from the back door.
I?m reaching up to get it and..
Wham, Hobby dinner.
Ain?t nature wonderful.
Have to rush,
I?ve been left in charge of the 5 spotted pardalotes.
Help, I?m turning into ramblin? john
Timothy Hyde
Blue Mountains / Capertee Valley
John Leonard wrote:
>
> Today whilst crossing a car-park at the University of Canberra I observed a
> Hobby
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