[Boogieman]

“...tried to scare away the falcon.”

Obviously, the woman knows nothing about raptors. Even “domesticated” ones will never give up their kill, unless you bribe them with an easier meal.

[rlmorel]

I took this one about 15 miles west of where I live...I was trying to get the thing out of the road, because I came around a corner nearly hit it, and...it just wouldn't leave. You can see I got pretty close to it, and eventually (because there was another hawk screaming at me from a tree) I decided not to push the issue and leave myself open to an attack. I drove slowly up to the thing until it disappeared under my bumper...it got the hint and flew away with its catch in its talons.

[rlmorel]

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.