on 2014-04-13 7:15 Alan C wrote
There was a commotion on our verandah at lunchtime. On investigation, my wife
found a Peregrine Falcon had grabbed our Cockatiel by the neck through the bars
of his cage.
wow! i'm sorry that you lost a longtime companion …
we had a strangely similar experience here in Denver several years ago; i heard
loud calls and discovered a white cockatiel perched in a large crabapple tree
in our yard; it seemed to be sticking around, so i tried to put the word out
and see if i could get some help catching it; while i was on the phone,
standing under the tree, a falcon or hawk dive-bombed the cockatiel, loosing a
few feathers but mainly startling it; the cockatiel flew down the block out of
sight, and though i tried to track it i never saw it again
raptors (usually sharp-shinned hawks) hunt and eat smaller birds in our yard
fairly often, and sometimes i have been within spitting distance when it
happened, but the cockatiel was the strangest of all these incidents
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