Alfred Hitchcock moment ..be very very scared .

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How would you like this hovering over your aviaries ? Bull dozers were ripping up a nearby tip thus disturbing mice , rats and who knows what else . Goshawks I think ????? by the hundreds if not more :shock:

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Thank you Damiien Sallustio for sharing this with us ...
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Wow, that's a lot of birds of prey....
Look more like black kites to me.
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how would you like to be a mouse running around under that flock not. :thumbup:
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reminds me of the Black Kites at Kakadu that follow the fires for fleeing prey.
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get the same thing happening with sugar cane harvest time..
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Our town raptor specialist recently told me that goshawks don't eat mice, prefer pidgeons and rabbits. :flopsy: :ooh:
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And as we know from the times she has taken one away from your place, a nice juicy budgie or weerio. :petrified: Were you feeling insomniac ? I just read the time of that post.
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That's a lot of birds
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That's a wonderful site, hope they decimated alot of the vermin.
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