. The wonders of bird life : an interesting account of the education, courtship, sport & play, makebelieve, fighting & other aspects of the life of birds . the Golden Eagle always decapitates any smallanimals which it brings to the brood, but in the case offeathered prey, in which the skull is not so hard and unmanage-able, the head is left on. Hares are plucked—a method ofpreparing this kind of game for the table which we usuallyonly associate with the ancient story of the inexpepienced Eagles larder is kept well filled, for portions of deadanimals are nearly always to be seen around
. The wonders of bird life : an interesting account of the education, courtship, sport & play, makebelieve, fighting & other aspects of the life of birds . the Golden Eagle always decapitates any smallanimals which it brings to the brood, but in the case offeathered prey, in which the skull is not so hard and unmanage-able, the head is left on. Hares are plucked—a method ofpreparing this kind of game for the table which we usuallyonly associate with the ancient story of the inexpepienced Eagles larder is kept well filled, for portions of deadanimals are nearly always to be seen around the margios of theeyrie, and the young grow up literally in the midst of to the Eagleslarder brings to mind the curiouslarder of the Red-backed Shrike [Lamus collurio), one of thesummer visitors to England and the south of Scotland, betterknown by its popular name of Butcher-bird. Its nest isusually placed high in a thorn bush, and on the surroundingthorns the bird impales the prey which it captures. Thoughconsiderably smaller than a Thrush it is very bold, and willeven attack and kill other small birds, though the greater part 76. The Butcher-Bird*s Larder The Butcher-bird impales its prey on thorns, and the remains of many victims mayoften be seen on a favourite thorn-bush. The larder represented m the picturecontains a beetle, a lizard, a young Blackbird, a Blue litmouse, and a Hedge-Sparrow. FEEDING THE CHICKS of its food consists of large insects which it catches, after themanner of a Flycatcher, by making quick dashes from the twigwhere it sits perched and watchful. It kills even when itsappetite for food is satisfied, and hangs up its victims for futureconsumption, dragging them on to the sharp thorns with itsfeet and strong bill, which is hooked and notched like that ofa Bird-of-Prey. A strange variety of game is sometimes col-lected in the larder; in one instance the bird had hung upa lizard, a dor-beetle, a Hedge-Sparrow, a young Blackbird,and a Blu
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