Monday 29 January 2018


We got some interesting footage the other night after finding a dead song thrush behind the office.  We put the trail camera out, hoping that perhaps it had been a sparrowhawk kill, and that the sparrowhawk would return to claim its prey, but it never did.  Instead we got video after video of a wood mouse/mice, feeding on the corpse after dark. In the video you can see the mouse feeding from the neck of the song thrush, with the bird's tail sticking out to the left. Over the course of a few nights the entire thrush was consumed. Gruesome but fascinating!  Lizy.





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