This female butcherbird has taken to waiting patiently for prey, cleverly hiding herself behind the she-oak needles. With the summer cicadas everywhere she has been feasting on them devouring them in a few moments.
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We could use some butcherbirds here in the summer. The cicadas are abundant.
they can be handy, she has had two babies that are nearly fully grown now.. still brown though and now they also come and sit on the deck railing to spy out the land