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Something Different Found in a Welsh Garden this Morning
Jul 9, 2017 10:26:12   #
PaulBa Loc: Cardiff, Wales
 
Most mornings I look out of my kitchen window to watch the pigeons feeding at the bird table. However, this morning all I was greeted with was a bird table surrounded by feathers and not a pigeon to be seen.
While cleaning up I noticed a foot amongst the feathers (just a foot, nothing attached). Never one to miss a macro opportunity I grabbed my camera and took a few pictures.
I have attached my favourite and a picture of the sight that greeted me this morning.


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Jul 9, 2017 10:44:54   #
WayneT Loc: Paris, TN
 
A fox or a badger?

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Jul 9, 2017 10:56:38   #
PaulBa Loc: Cardiff, Wales
 
WayneT wrote:
A fox or a badger?
I think it was a sparrow hawk although I can't be sure. I found one in the garden plucking a pigeon a few years ago. It was being harried by two magpies trying to steal it's kill.

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Jul 9, 2017 11:28:44   #
WayneT Loc: Paris, TN
 
Hawks have to eat as well and a good population control for pigeons.

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Jul 9, 2017 19:25:24   #
Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA
 
Pigeons are winged vermin. No great lose.

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Jul 9, 2017 20:26:52   #
Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI
 
An interesting find.

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Jul 10, 2017 01:31:13   #
tinusbum Loc: east texas
 
looks like a chicken foot, or something that will rip your heart out while your sleeping

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Jul 10, 2017 10:11:31   #
davids999 Loc: Edinburgh, UK
 

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