greykangaroo
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The first and last thing many birds see is this sight in the sky.
Where I live opposite a large park full of many species of birds I have noted times when the chatter of virtually twenty species comes to a dead stop. This is generally after an alarm call from a small bird, like Drrrrrrrrr. All birds seem to know the alarm call of other birds. They explode into the sky from all around my garden. I will go out and look to see a Sparrow Hawk some hundreds of feet up, flying slowly by.
Some of these birds such as the large corellas and cockatoos are so large that they would have to be four times the size of the hawks. But the terror seems to spread.
One large friendly, carnivorous bird is the Australian magpie. In photo three, even they aren't safe from air attack. They walk around looking at the ground and never know what hits them.
They say that the Sparrow Hawk likes to live near human habitation. That isn't because they love humans. It is because they have a selection of birds that adhere to what humans offer. Parks and gardens, shrubs, seeds, and all other food that brings the birds to reside there and become the hawk's prey.
To live in the avian world must be very worrying, the way our birds in the yard keep looking at the sky.
