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Tuesday 10th July 2012, 18:55
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Swallow at play?
Today while sitting by Kinghorn Loch I observed a swallow flying around with a feather in its mouth. Every thirty seconds or so the bird would drop the feather then twist and dive and catch it again. This was over the loch itself and the bird did not head towards the nest site to use the feather in its nest.
I have seen a family of buzzards passing a rabbit carcass to each other in a similar fashion and presumably this was to hone the youngsters hunting skills, but this swallow was on it's own and seemed to be doing it just for the hell of it. |
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Thursday 2nd August 2012, 00:29
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That sounds similar to what I saw. I posted about it a couple of months back.
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=232914 I would like to think that it is a form of play. |
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Thursday 2nd August 2012, 17:35
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I've never seen it myself but seems to be something that some birds do to "learn and play" at the same time.
CB |
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