Bird's legs in bird bath

[JohnC6]

I clean out and refresh the water in the bird bath a couple of times a day. I did it this morning and when I went to do it this afternoon there were two bird's legs in it..seperated and a small piece of what looked like innards. We have sparrow hawks visit the garden,infact I mentioned that one killed a blue tit a couple of weeks ago but I've never seen one on or in the bird bath. The legs were grey and three-toed. Very strange., My first guess was a pigeon. I can't understand why a pair of legs would be detached, though. No feathers around on the lawn, either.. nothing.

Edited Sat: Thinking about it, the bits have probably been picked up by the likes of a crow which brought them to clean up and it decided they weren't very nice to eat. We get crows in the bird bath.

 

[Stuart Philpott]

How interesting It really sounds like you have worked out a plausible explanation John,cheers for posting though interesting tale. We have never seen anything like this ,they always seem to eat the kill elsewhere

Now we need to get your big ol lens on that hawk/s . We get visits too John, but I rarely get a chance of an image. We had a spell where they hit us just as I went off to work . It was really quite funny, My darling would be wow look there's the sparrow hawk me I never saw it This happened several times ,bird within yards of me and me utterly unaware it got to the stage of me being ridiculed...... funny. They are so so fast A subject I'd love to really make images of and always a joy to just see

tfs

stu

 

[JohnC6]

How interesting It really sounds like you have worked out a plausible explanation John,cheers for posting though interesting tale. We have never seen anything like this ,they always seem to eat the kill elsewhere

Now we need to get your big ol lens on that hawk/s . We get visits too John, but I rarely get a chance of an image. We had a spell where they hit us just as I went off to work . It was really quite funny, My darling would be wow look there's the sparrow hawk me I never saw it This happened several times ,bird within yards of me and me utterly unaware it got to the stage of me being ridiculed...... funny. They are so so fast A subject I'd love to really make images of and always a joy to just see

stu

Apologies,Stuart. As I did't get an alert I didn't return to see if there were any replies especially as I added what I thought to be the explanantion the next day. Thanks for your response,though.

The sparrow hawk (s) visit sporadically, we don't see any for several weeks and only once have I had a lens handy and the result wasn't too good.

You'd think they'd fly off immediately someone approaches but they don't, they stay there glaring at you. I've got to within a couple of metres of one before it's flown off.