mikeyjh
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Quite the spectacle! Very likely to have been a Buzzard - Just part of the circle of life, Buzzards are very common these days....A few weekends back i sat down with my 6 year old to do the RSPB bird watching weekend. You have to sit and log all the birds that you've seen in your garden for an hour.
In that hour the most incredible thing happened, bearing in mind I live near Kingston SW London and not in the country side. A bird of prey (we think a buzzard) took down this wood pigeon. Whilst this bird of prey was dealing with a flapping pigeon a massive fox comes from behind and attacks this fairly large bird of prey. There was a stand off and the bird made itself big (and it was big) a few times to deter the fox. The bird stayed there for about 3 hrs eating this pigeon but unfortunately i think the foxes initial attack from behind damaged the bird as it limped off after eating the pigeon. Unfortunately i saw the bird the next day dead. Very sad. I did manage to film it a lot of it.
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That fox is a regular to the garden and it is massive btw. It's like a Labrador.