Red Shouldered Hawk about to grab a bunny or whatever
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The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
The wing trails like a banner in defeat,
No more to use the sky forever but live with famine
And pain a few days: cat nor coyote
Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is game without talons.
He stands under the oak-bush and waits
The lame feet of salvation; at night he remembers freedom
And flies in a dream, the dawns ruin it.
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
The curs of the day come and torment him
At distance, no one but death the redeemer will humble that head,
The intrepid readiness, the terrible eyes.
The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those
That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant.
You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him;
Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him;
Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.
II
I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk; but the great redtail
Had nothing left but unable misery
From the bone too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved.
We had fed him six weeks, I gave him freedom,
He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death,
Not like a beggar, still eyed with the old
Implacable arrogance.
I gave him the lead gift in the twilight.
What fell was relaxed, Owl-downy, soft feminine feathers; but what
Soared: the fierce rush: the night-herons by the flooded river cried fear at its rising
Before it was quite unsheathed from reality.
Robinson Jeffers
I guess he literally “shot a birdie”.
Let’s see... a fitting punishment... let hawks come and tear the flesh from him?
I’m sure this is a very worthy use of Federal, state, and local law enforcement resources.
He should be placed downrange while other golfers drive balls in his direction.
If he can hit a hawk he should be able to win about any tournament. If the damn thing didn’t fly off after a few shots came close it deserved to get hit. Big deal, he killed a hawk, I would bet money it was accidental if he did hit it.
Part of the draw of golf for me, is that the courses are more wilderness than I see most of the time. I like seeing the animals and birds.
This guy used poor judgement here. I think it reflects on him more poorly than he realizes. As for him being hauled into court over it, I think the courts have more important things to address than this man/bird incident.
We have hawks that return to fly over our property every year. I love seeing them flying around. I certainly wouldn’t like it if anyone harmed them.
I would like to visit with Tripp via email and suggest he try the same trick with a disruptive pitbull around.
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It was a lucky (unlucky if you’re the hawk) shot. No one is that good. There’s no way he could do it again if given the chance.
Birds have no septum, this statement is redundant. Just saying.
Damn, if he could hit a bird with a golf shot from 75 yards, then maybe I will buy his “Shoot like a pro” golf video.
That’s an amazing shot, I have trouble hitting the fairway!
The man is an idiot, needs to be an ex PGA golfer.
I love hawks. There are two nesting on top of my building. Watch Palemale if you can get it from Netflix - story of a hawk in Central Park.
Hit him with a fine, and make him spend a bunch of hours of community service cleaning the hawk crap out of the cages at a raptor center.
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See, being good at sports will catch up with you in the end.
If I pulled a stunt like that, all you'd hear is laughter when I missed the hawk by a mile.
It was a stupid, cruel thing to do. But if he'd just seen this movie, it would explain a lot:
That was two hours of Paul Giamatti carrying a hawk on his arm and waiting for it to die.