I was watching a Grey Butcherbird outside my window about to have a feed of
a small garden skink. The Bb persisted in trying to get the skink hooked in
a small fork of twigs as is their habit so that he could pick it to
bite-sized pieces. He got the tail off and swallowed that and was about to
continue when a magpie walked under the tree, looked up, flew 5m vertically
and delicately took the remains almost from the Bb beak.
I thought that it was interesting in that the Magpie clearly knew what was
going on and must have done this a few times before.
Cheers
Colin Driscoll
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Colin Driscoll
Environmental Biologist
P.O. Box 1047
Toronto NSW 2283
Australia
phone/fax +61 2 49598016
Mobile 0438 773029
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