European Gardening: Birds in the garden Part 2., 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
I was shocked yesterday morning! I caught Pussy, (a kitten from my brother temporarily taken care of by me)
on the act of catching one of my sparrows.
He had it in his beak and came running towards me.
Fortunately I acted cool-headed, sized him down to the floor rather rude until he opened his beak. To my relief the sparrow took his chance and flew off like an arrow. It must not have been hurt yet...

I guess if I had been shouting angrily at him he would have run away from me and the bird would have had no chance.
I'm not going to let him unsupervised in my garden any longer. I have build up a trust relation with my bird population during many years, to the degree that they are almost tame, but with the down side that they are less alert to dangers.
This is so hard for me as I like this lovely kitten so much, he has stolen my heart, but I cannot betray my birds...
Difficult now also to feed them. I have a bird feedhouse tied up high out of the reach of potential predators. But birds are messy eaters, so there's always seeds fallen on the floor..
Unfortunately cats and birds are not compatible.

Here is a somewhat blurred picture of him, just to show how small he still is and already caught his first bird!