yesturday at around 4.30pm, i heard a bit of birdie comotion comming from next doors garden. I tried to see what was going on but the comotion came from behind some bushes , and they blocked my view. A couple of wood pigeons came flying out of the bushes, and i could hear lots of squarking and flapping,and I thought that maybe a cat had caught a bird.
Anyway almost an hour later I was stood at the back door with the OH having a fag, and a bird of pray landed right in the middle of our garden with a dead wood pigeon in its talons It stayed there for a few seconds and then just flew away with the dead bird. :shock: we were both completely shocked as neither of us has ever seen any thing like this before, especially in our back yard. Im guessing it was a kestral.
So.... now Im too worried to let my rabbits free range.
George and Misty are quite big buns, they are dwarf lops and they might be a bit too big for the bird that we saw to fly off with, but if it did come back and my buns were out, it could try to attack them and realy seriously injure them. I don`t know what to do now.
They live in a 6x2 hutch with a 6x4 attatched run that they have 24 hr access to. But i feel that this is no way big enough to keep them shut in all day every day. They usually spend most of the day free ranging at the side of the house, and love dashing around and doing lots of binkies. Im going to keep them locked up today because im too scared to let them out.
Even though it was lovely to see a bird of pray in our own back yard, it also made me worry about the safety of my rabs.
Anyway almost an hour later I was stood at the back door with the OH having a fag, and a bird of pray landed right in the middle of our garden with a dead wood pigeon in its talons It stayed there for a few seconds and then just flew away with the dead bird. :shock: we were both completely shocked as neither of us has ever seen any thing like this before, especially in our back yard. Im guessing it was a kestral.
So.... now Im too worried to let my rabbits free range.
George and Misty are quite big buns, they are dwarf lops and they might be a bit too big for the bird that we saw to fly off with, but if it did come back and my buns were out, it could try to attack them and realy seriously injure them. I don`t know what to do now.
They live in a 6x2 hutch with a 6x4 attatched run that they have 24 hr access to. But i feel that this is no way big enough to keep them shut in all day every day. They usually spend most of the day free ranging at the side of the house, and love dashing around and doing lots of binkies. Im going to keep them locked up today because im too scared to let them out.
Even though it was lovely to see a bird of pray in our own back yard, it also made me worry about the safety of my rabs.