As many of you will know I am particularly fond of the Green Catbird.... having a family of them as regular visitors to my garden. I also used to see another breeding pair on my morning walks and they have been nesting at the bottom of the same garden for several years so the owner told me. I was very upset this morning to find this next to the footpath on the walkway her garden adjoins ... ..sorry if it upsets people but I took it for ID as at first I wasn't sure it wasnt a Lorikeet but it is definitely a dead Catbird...... thanks to some domesticated cat or dog I would say..... very disappointing :( . They don't come down and ground feed unless well hidden by the cover of bush so I would think it is a cat that was prowling at night..... grrrrrr!!
Very upsetting Birdie :(
This is so sad Adrienne, I know just how upsetting this is.
Last week a juvenile Fantailed Cuckoo flew into my window. Dead. My windows aren't clean and shiny, but still it flew into it. I held the dead bird for a while, saying, I'm so sorry bird...
If you think it's been killed by a cat, that is no accident.
M-L
Oh this was no accident M-L .... it had been half eaten and was not that decomposed. I would be so upset if it was one of my little Catbird family.... I knew this pair and have photographed them many times too :(
Sunshine Coast Queensland