Blackbird murdered my frog? (1 Viewer)

[hedera-helix59]

This morning I saw a blackbird catch a frog and bash him and peck to death, got my binoculars so I could see better, he couldn't swallow it whole so I think he was Trying to dismember him......I haven't been across the garden to see if he managed to eat him and I was called away so I didn't see what actually happened at the end, I don't want to look as frog was one of three I had in my pond. Is this normal behaviour for a female blackbird?

 

[Farnboro John]

Very few birds are not capable of or inclined to take advantage of an easy meal. Great Tits in Europe kill hibernating bats and eat their brains, Pheasants are held to be responsible for the continuing decline of Adders through predating young ones (and I've seen one kill a vole and take it away to eat). A Blackbird is predatory anyway as an eater of invertebrates.

However, I think you should dial back the anthropomorphic rhetoric. The Blackbird did not murder your frog. It predated it: malice is not part of the transaction. It's nature and you need to step back a bit from judging what happens in it.

John

 

[Jos Stratford]

However, I think you should dial back the anthropomorphic rhetoric. The Blackbird did not murder your frog. It predated it: malice is not part of the transaction. It's nature and you need to step back a bit from judging what happens in it nature

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