Brown shrikes are also known as butcher birds, and that simply put, are pursuers of preys like large insects, lizards, frogs, and even smaller birds, and have even been recorded to impale their victims on thorns for example, before devouring them.
Being aggressive these pursuers behave like small raptors but one would not think of this if this Brown Shrike is anything to go by.
First, it went under cover, literally, with what looked like a millipede prey.
Then looking very much like the pursued here, it guarded its prey jealously, cautiously observing its surrounding, for prey snatchers.
And as if this was not enough to put off any pursuers, if there was any, it fled to another tree.
And to another, again keenly on the look-out as if another predator/snatcher could just be lurking somewhere ...
... and yet another, unfortunately too far for me to catch up ...
... and by the time I did, it had already finished off its prize.
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