Flying kitty from r/gifs
My impression is that this bird is a magpie and she is defending her young. I’m not an ornithologist so I am assessing what’s happened as a layperson (update: the magpie is attacking the cat during nesting season). The cat, which looks like a dilute ginger tabby, simply wandered onto the bird’s territory. That is the way I see it. A totally innocent act by the cat. The bird was very brave, obviously, to have a pop at the domestic cat because she paid a price, the ultimate price as you can see when the cat makes a mighty leap as the bird flies away. The cat captures the bird in her jaws and that is the end of the bird. What I find so impressive is that this short-animated gift (short, repeating video based on still images) demonstrates to us and reminds us that the domestic cat retains its wild ancestor’s abilities through long levers and fast twitch muscles. This is a leap from a standing start which makes it all the more impressive.
I’m not defending feral cats. I’m simply observing what is happening. Both the behaviour of the bird and the behavior of the cat are natural. I understand your concern about the predation of birds by domestic and feral cats. I’m sensitive to it. However, I don’t see any straightforward answer to the problem and neither do the experts or indeed anybody else. That’s why nothing happens and nothing has happened for decades on this sensitive subject.
yet you celebrate this? Your defense of ferals is dumb,its like defending poachers because 1000 years ago they were hunters? Feral cats are cancer and so are the people who defend them to the point of hating the natural fauna. Lynx and puma dont sportkill, ferals do.