The Victim:
I really felt for this
little warbler – a breeding male Yellow-rumped “Myrtle” Warbler that was
feeding at one of our log feeders. It’s not too cold – about 53F – but windy;
it was blowing at about 24 mph. He’s a chunky little fellow and it’s not easy
for him to hold onto the feeder log. But he had grabbed a mouthful of peanut
butter/vegetable fat/seed mix…
The Scene of the Crime:
and had just returned to a
nearbly branch. He deposited the chunck of food on the branch and was about to
eat it when the Hermit Thrush grabbed it and gobbled it down.
The Accused:
Who, me?
Yes, you – I saw you. The
warbler wasn’t pressing charges;…
he had already flown back
to the log feeder.
The thrush, a little
later, back to get food honestly. In defense of the thrush, it has great
difficulty holding onto the log to feed. It usually has to hover at the log and
grab food ‘on the fly,’ literally. The opportunity to grab some food off a
branch was just too tempting.
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