A free breakfast for a butcher bird

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Our motor-home has a stone-guard which protects the bottom half of the windscreen. Hopefully you can get the idea from the top image. We’ve discovered that it also protects against flying insects, particularly grasshoppers. The farming areas sometimes have plagues of them but thankfully we didn’t come across any plagues. However, when we pulled into Westonia, we had picked up quite a few dead bodies in the mesh of the guard. Next morning, as we were doing up our seat-belts and about to leave, a pied butcher bird landed on the guard and proceeded to pick out all the locusts. We had to take a quick photo before he moved on to clean someone’s radiator for them. I guess it’s an easier way to get a meal than to hunt it down himself.