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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I just watched one of my cats, Bramble, struggling to climb our fence before being attacked by a kamikaze blackbird who flew in at high speed and stabbed her in the rump with his beak before crashing to the ground, stunned.
She looked at him and fled indoors. He flew off triumphant and sat chirping angrily on the fence
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I once saw two magpies taunting a cat who lied in the grass amongst the small clump of trees surrounded by apartements here where I live. The magpies hopped around the cat, one repeatedly going:
-KHHEHEHEHHHK!
The other:
-KHHAHAHAHHHK!
They went "KHHEHEHEHHHK!" and "KHHAHAHAHHHK!" back and forth many times, the first bird being the braver one, often hopping closer to the cat, seemingly as if trying to impress the other magpies by daring death itself. There was no reason for it; the cat wasn't threatening the birds at all, in fact it wasn't doing anything.
The cat just lied there staring off at nothing and not moving either head or body, yet still showing definite signs of irritation with the twitches from the tip of its tail.
Eventually, the racket the two birds were making probably got the better of the cat. It rose up on its legs and moseyed off, defeated. I laughed! It was so comical...
Thanks for the picture, and the text going along with it!
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13801
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I found the reason. A nest built in an unwise place. Luckily pretty inaccessible, but very unwise
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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sparks
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Registered: January 1970
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One question that comes to mind is just why any self respecting blackbird go after a britt piece of tail.Please respond. sparks;-)
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