#2 Nature can be so cruel.

rocio · 23-10-2011, 07:47 PM

We have a very tall palm tree in the garden which is home to loads of sparrow and starling nests in the spring and early summer. One day,I saw a jackdaw arrive at the palm tree amid a grerat outcry from the resident,nesting birds. He took no notice and proceeded to rob the nests of as much plunder as he could. This amounted to the jackdaw gulping down as many eggs/ baby nestlings as its crop would hold and then fleeing the scene with a struggling nestling clamped tightly in his jaws---presumably to feed the jackdaw nestlings at home. This behaviour was repeated over several days until silence reigned in the palm tree. Pretty grim, but nature in the raw.

**16 shells** · 23-10-2011, 08:25 PM

Yeah it's all part of the big picture, but fascinating, at work when we see the cuckoo nestling's chucking the other chick's out to the ground. The female lay's it's egg's in another bird's nest and mixes it's egg's in like a Robbins, then are incubated by the Robin, when hatched the cuckoo chick's will turf the host bird's chick's out and be fostered by the Robin

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23-10-2011, 07:47 PM	#1
rocio Member Hatchling Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 595	#2 Nature can be so cruel. We have a very tall palm tree in the garden which is home to loads of sparrow and starling nests in the spring and early summer. One day,I saw a jackdaw arrive at the palm tree amid a grerat outcry from the resident,nesting birds. He took no notice and proceeded to rob the nests of as much plunder as he could. This amounted to the jackdaw gulping down as many eggs/ baby nestlings as its crop would hold and then fleeing the scene with a struggling nestling clamped tightly in his jaws---presumably to feed the jackdaw nestlings at home. This behaviour was repeated over several days until silence reigned in the palm tree. Pretty grim, but nature in the raw.

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23-10-2011, 08:25 PM	#2
16 shells Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hull Posts: 7,286	Yeah it's all part of the big picture, but fascinating, at work when we see the cuckoo nestling's chucking the other chick's out to the ground. The female lay's it's egg's in another bird's nest and mixes it's egg's in like a Robbins, then are incubated by the Robin, when hatched the cuckoo chick's will turf the host bird's chick's out and be fostered by the Robin . __________________ Paul.

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