We were disturbed this morning by an appalling, tuneless racket right outside our bedroom window. Pulling open the curtains revealed half a dozen magpies not six feet away squabbllng over the bloody body of a dead pigeon on the flat roof. They flew off in a hurry leaving a well pecked corpse and loads of feathers. I wondered how the pigeon came to die there, did it just drop dead, was it attacked by a sparrow hawk or did the magpies do the deed? It certainly wasn't either a cat or a fox neither of which has ever been seen on our flat roof twenty feet above the ground.
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good question. with so many birds in the landscape where do they go when they die ? you never see them lying on the ground hardly ever. we need to be told.
Where do they go when they die? The eternal question!
For the faithful, it really depends on their religion.
For the non-believers I expect it's Zams...
I'd put money on a Magpie. Those corvid are carnivores and I once watched one disable a pigeon on HTH green and eat it
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