[O.C. - Old Cracker]

I'm calling PETA! That hawk should be shot!

[.38sw]

NO! Catch that hawk, and send it to my neighborhood! There are pigeons everyone. We have a bunch of them roosting on a crossbeam in the front of the house. I hate them. They're flying rats. No, I can't shoot them. This is a suburban area with the houses very close together, and if I'm seen in the front yard with anything resembling a firearm, I'm sure the SWAT team will be here in 10 seconds flat.

[cyborg]

heh... The Circle of Life? I'm sure the home depot manager is secretly happy because pigeons are filthy.

[LizardQueen]

Very cool. Raptors are neat birds. And this one is doing Home Depot a favor, gory as it may be. Those pigeons are probably pooping all over their stock.

We had a hawk sitting on our deck railing a foot from the back door last week. We have bird feeders that the squirrels, chipmunks, and mice are always at - I think he was hunting around them.

LQ

[ghost of nixon]

"Some of the customers were upset. DEMOCRATS

Some said it was the neatest thing they had ever seen." REPUBLICANS

[ContemptofCourt]

We have a hawk that live in our neighborhood...the thing is huge and awesome. It could easily eat small dogs and cats.

[cripplecreek]

PETA would have fits if they came to my house. I have 10 5lb feeders that daw in hundreds of birds including doves, squirells and chipmunks. the result is that ive attracted hawks as well. Even had a bald eagle hanging around the lake last summer.

[TBall]

When I was a little boy my grandfather would pay me a nickle for every pigeon I killed in his warehouse. He would give me his pellet gun and I would be occupied for hours while he did paper work.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I saw a hawk ripping the feathers out of a pigeon just outside of my workplace a few years ago. It was really neat to watch. I just wish I could have watched it knock it down in mid air.

[al baby]

that hawk ought to try the spicy dog with a coke

[Muleteam1]

>>Workers said about 15 pigeons were living in the store, but since the hawk arrived, few are left.<<

Neat story. Pigeons are very adaptive. I doubt all the missing birds have been eaten but instead have beat feet.

Muleteam1

[TXBSAFH]

That is the way of nature.

[woofie]

All they need to do is pass a law protecting the pigeons as well

[Teacher317]

Wow. I would pay a cover charge to watch that!

[Bikers4Bush]

This is old. They trapped the Hawk and released him into the wild a number of days ago.

[RandallFlagg]

We've got hawks doing this all the time on the roof of our building. I'd be up there sneaking a smoke and see a wing, a leg, a beak, etc.

[spodefly]

I live in a semi-high rise (mid rise) condo in midtown Atlanta. I occasionally get to watch hawk/pigeon encounters out my window. There are 2 or 3 hawks that regularly fly around the neighborhood. There are way fewer pigeons now than there used to be.

[Jonah Hex]

I was walking through our local Busch Gardens theme park a couple of summers and observed a hawk drop a partially-eaten rabbit in front of a little girl in the crowd. She went into hysterics, while her parents were up in arms about the park management allowing this to happen(?).

They actually threatened to sue Busch because their little girl will carry the "mental scars" the rest of here life. The local manager did his best to sooth these tourons while reminding them that Mother Nature can be a bitch (or words to that effect).

Me? I just sat back and watched, amused and bemused. It was an amusement park after all......

[Xenalyte]

You just gotta love nature, red in tooth and claw.

[sandydipper]

We have 2 resident Red Shoulder hawks that raise a chick or 2 every year. I've never seen them go after another bird, they seem to perfer frogs, worms or rats. The Merlin is another story - he flies right into the scrub after smaller birds. Great Show.

[TXBSAFH]

That is the way of nature.