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To: rlmorel
I saw this one on the side of the road a couple of years back, and almost hit it as I came around a corner...so I stopped and tried to get it out of the road, and it wasn't prepared to leave its kill...

It's common that hawks get run over as they don't fly out of the way of cars if they have their prey.

71 posted on 07/30/2018 8:23:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

I was walking through my parking lot at work one day, and I heard this terrible sound I had never heard before...it was some kind of animal sound, it was obvious, but I had no idea what it was.

There, in between two cars, was a red tail hawk, standing on top of a sleek shiny black form...a crow. It had its talons sunk deeply into the crow, who was quivering and emitting a horrible, horrible un-crow-like sound of pain.

When I walked over to get a closer look, the hawk drooped its wings down (apparently this is called ‘mantling’ to conceal its prey) but it was pretty clear, it had no intention whatsoever of leaving its prey.

I like crows too, but nature is hard, and I just had to leave it. I am glad we are usually (but not always) at the top of the food chain!


87 posted on 07/30/2018 3:50:56 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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