Cyprus last week......! (1 Viewer)

KenM

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• Apr 12, 2018

• #1

Have read of ''Sprows'' feeding their young invertebrates....but surely this isn't ''cricket'' is it? :eek!:.....

........Once saw a Blackbird swallowing a small Sloworm, so I suppose a Northern Wheatear attempting the same with a small Lizard, should also come as no surprise? :eek!:

 

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Kits

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• Apr 12, 2018

• #2

Two great behavioural shots, Ken!

 

KenM

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• Apr 12, 2018

• #3

Kits said:

Two great behavioural shots, Ken!

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Simon Wates

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• Apr 12, 2018

• #4

Can't help on the prey items....but the photo shows the breast side and flank streaking of those supposedly near impossible to ID female Spanish Sparrows very nicely! (and the bright mantle stripes).

It also reminded me of a bad photo I took while sat at the hotel in Jaca, Pyrenees some years ago - with a House Sparrow fighting with a lizard, which it then flew off with.

 

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KenM

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• Apr 13, 2018

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Simon Wates said:

Can't help on the prey items....but the photo shows the breast side and flank streaking of those supposedly near impossible to ID female Spanish Sparrows very nicely! (and the bright mantle stripes).

It also reminded me of a bad photo I took while sat at the hotel in Jaca, Pyrenees some years ago - with a House Sparrow fighting with a lizard, which it then flew off with.

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So much for seed eaters :eek!:

 

Andy Adcock

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• Apr 13, 2018

• #6

KenM said:

So much for seed eaters :eek!:

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I've seen one tackling a Privet Hawk Moth which at the time was a tick for me.



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KenM

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• Apr 13, 2018

• #7

andyadcock said:

I've seen one tackling a Privet Hawk Moth which at the time was a tick for me.
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.....likewise once saw a "white morph" Privet Moth being attacked by a Robin and that too was a tick!