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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:22 PM
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He just ate a whole raw squirrel, but he still doesn't look happy.
THAT got your attention, didn't it?

He's been hanging out in a tree in the backyard all day, looking dejected in the pouring rain. Funny how, if you see them when they're soaked, these graceful raptors end up just looking raggedy.



Redstone
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:23 PM
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1. I think I ate your chocolate squirrel....
cool pic!
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:31 PM
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2. What a beautiful looking bird!
:hi:
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:34 PM
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3. Raggedy or no, I wouldn't mess with him...
Unless I was Rocky J. Squirrel, or something.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:49 PM
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4. I actually had a fistfight with one like him (an Osprey) last year...
Hey, I gotta tell Wetzelbill about that so he can tell his badger-fighting brother!

Well, anyway, don't ever try to punch one of them. I got a three-inch cut with attendant nasty infection for my stupidity. It took months to heal.

Redstone
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:10 PM
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10. Some neighborhood kids once were fooling around with a wounded kestrel
It was wounded and cornered between a house and a garage. It was terrified or pissed or both. I wandered up because I saw the kids gathered around it, trying to poke at it. I went inside, called the police to come get it, and then went out to shoo the kids away. But kids being what they are, they ignored me.

Their reward for being cruel, tormenting little bastards? The damn thing nearly snipped the top of one of their fingers clean off. Cleanest cut, almost as if by a knife, quite impressive. The kids scattered. I was secretly rooting for the kestrel.

When the cops came, I told them about the kid, and they just chuckled. No sympathy for bird-torturers.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:13 PM
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11. Well, I wasn't torturing the osprey, just keeping it from eating my kid's
pet chicken.

Magnificent bird of prey or not, leave my kid's pet alone!

Redstone
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:18 PM
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13. Oh no...not implying that...
For some reason, your story just reminded me of those kids, that's all. Never found out what happened to the kid's finger.

Yeah, I'd do the same, even though those birds are badasses.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:30 PM
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14. A good whack upside the head with a broom handle taught him some manners.
(I was careful not to hit him on the neck or wing; I wasn't trying to cripple him, just get him to go away.)

Redstone
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:52 PM
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5. Nice red-tail!
Thanks for the picture!
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:15 PM
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12. And a well-fed one too, from the looks of him.
Between him coming around for a day every week or so, and the owls who live across the street in the spruce tree, our mouse problem has diminished considerably this year.

Redstone
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:56 PM
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6. Well, he is a little bit raggedy......
But I think he still has an air of majesty and dignity to him, my dear Redstone....

Don't you think so?

Thanks for the pic!


:loveya: :hug:
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:57 PM
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7. I saw one scoop up a rat one time. It was awesome.
I felt bad for the rat, but to see a hawk in action is so cool!
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:05 PM
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8. I thought you were talking about my dog
and I was startled. He always seems happy.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:10 PM
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9. It rained on his picnic.
He still looks fluffy.

Hubby saw an osprey grab a cat at the Space Center once.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:28 AM
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15. wow. he's beautiful!
just spectacular!

thank you for the photo!
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:34 AM
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16. Great photo!!!
Thanks for sharing :applause:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:52 AM
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17. What a beaut!
The other day I was waiting for my son to come out of the local donut shop, when a woman drove into the back of the parking lot and tossed a large bag of bread crusts out for the pigeons, sparrows and such.

This flock of various hungry little birds came swarming down to the site, among them a huge hawk, as excited as the rest of the crowd. He perched on a telephone pole and watched the other birds eat, as if he was reading a menu.

Talk about Smorgasbord!
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 01:48 AM
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18. Lots of wet bald eagles up here today
They look really pissed & dangerous when wet.
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