Grey Butcher Bird

GREY BUTCHER BIRD

 

 

 

It was a beautiful late winter, early spring day today, there was a bright and warm sun and a very gentle wind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I watched and followed this butcher bird for quite a while. I think it is quite a young one as it colour is more brown and fawn rather than the more strongly marked adults.

 

  

 

 

 It was sitting in a low tree calling with a beautifully melodic song. It sat on its branch for quite a while before swooping down into the grass below. It returned to the branch with what looked like a large winged ant in its beak. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It then moved from tree, sitting and watching the ground below carefully. An occasional  swoop and return before moving on to another branch.