Posted on 03/16/2015 2:45:41 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Another time, I was pulling into the parking lot where I work, and something between cars caught my eye...I asked the guy to stop, and got out to look, there was a hawk standing on top of a quivering crow, which was letting out the most horrible sounding cries of distress, as the hawk had it talons buried deeply into the breast of the crow. The hawk had its wings extended and drooped downwards as if guarding its kill, and it regarded me with very little interest except to just stare at me to let me know where I stood in the scheme of things.
I have to admit, I have always liked crows (because I have never had to live near a roost!) and I felt pity for it, but...that is just the way things are.
Somedays you are the crow snatching a robin chick from a nest...sometimes you have a hawk’s talons buried in your chest. That is the way of things.
She probably thought they ate her carryon bag.
The “animal rights” fools have no idea how nature works. What does this moron think a falcon is supposed to eat, tofu?
I had on owl or hawk fly into the side of one of my trailers on the Skyway (troll road outside of Chicago)a number of years ago (past statute of limitations). Nothing I could do about it. I saw something large fly up then heard a thud.
Yep.
I feed some squirrels at the local park, and this winter I saw a big goshawk had come around and was hunting them. I just got my buddies fattened up for the winter, and now he was going to get some easy meals off them. What are you gonna do? That’s nature.
Is the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act predicated on them being endangered species? If so, why would the government be interested in protecting the other raptors?
LOL...sorry guys!
bada-bing!
Birds of prey are also illegally hunted for their feathers unlike most any other species.
Alternate reality headline:
“Hauser woman missing since Jan 7th”
I’m not much of a fan of government regulation. Maybe I should have made that clearer.
Beautiful bird!
Or carrion bag...
Because falcons are even more rare than eagles...
They are protected last I heard, under the engangered species act, which is why getting a permit is a big deal for falconers.
Isn’t it, though? Looking at the way it was looking at me, it made me glad to be as big as I am. I would hate to be a squirrel or chipmunk and see that look...
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