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Loggerhead Shrike Fledgling Teaching Itself How To Impale Its Prey With a Flower!

Shrikes through instinctive behavior perfect their ability to impale or wedge their prey into the V of a branch or impale it on thorns, or barbed wire in order to eat it! Here we have a fledgling doing just that it takes a bit of practice but in the end the fledgling does it!
The fledgling picks up a flower!
The fledgling picks up a flower!
Oops the fledgling dropped it!
Oops the fledgling dropped it!
The fledglings not Happy!
The fledglings not Happy!
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Finally!