Kinda weird...a hawk in a suburban hood. If you look closely, you can see he has a bloody, dead bird in his clutches...trippy...he's been hangin out bullyin all the birds in the trees.
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Aren't you little miss photographer lately! Cool pic.
Not that unusual anymore. Some major cities have actually introduced peregrine falcons to help keep the pigeon population in check. We have a red-tail hawk that hangs around the back of our building and I think it nests on the roof of one of the adjacent buildings. And this is within sight of the Boston skyline!
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Eh...I've never seen one chillin in my hood and when I went out to look at it I saw that he had that dead bird in his hands. Do you know what kinda hawk that is by chance?SuzyCreamcheese said:
Last year I was out getting something out of the car when I heard all this co-motion. Hawk had tried to take a bird right out of the front yard about twenty feet from where I was standing.
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That's badass when birds dry their wings. Thanks for the links.Wumpus said:
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Around here, the black birds give the hawks hell. The coolest thing ever was watching a hawk nab a rabbit while I was baling hay. I nearly hit him with a front wheel and he still got the rabbit. It was cool when you would start plowing, the hawks would show up for a feast of mice.Wumpus said:
We have coyotes, foxes, and 'coons in our suburban 'hood. I figured everybody had hawks.......... 
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Jeez you really ARE a hick...bailin hay, plowing, mixin dwight yokum CD's....loco said:
I saw a dead raccoon on the busy street by my house...he died on the center median...SkaredShtles said:We have coyotes, foxes, and 'coons in our suburban 'hood. I figured everybody had hawks..........
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when i was in florida last week, otis and i headed to the swamp to take a walk (corkscrew nature preserve).
we saw this friendly critter:
we saw this friendly critter:
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So???? What are you sayin????dh girlie said:
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That was scare the holy bejeezus out of me.narlus said:when i was in florida last week, otis and i headed to the swamp to take a walk (corkscrew nature preserve).
we saw this friendly critter:
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Obviously, since you can't even type correctly after seeing the picture.
That's a small one, they get MUCH bigger. While in college when it would get cool, the big ones would wander from sunning themselves on the lake shore onto the warm asphalt of the STREET! There is nothing like a 10-12' Gator to stop traffic, but then again they are our mascotnarlus said:when i was in florida last week, otis and i headed to the swamp to take a walk (corkscrew nature preserve).
we saw this friendly critter:
Oh yeah? Well when I was in Florida just walking around in Gatorland I stumbled upon these....narlus said:
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was = would when I am scared.Wumpus said:
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They are as creepy as snakes to me. I may have something against all reptiles.
yeah, that was a small one. but he was so peaceful.
we also saw a female that apparently had babies, but we didn't have binoculars. saw some neat birds too, including a yellow-crowned night heron.
we also saw a female that apparently had babies, but we didn't have binoculars. saw some neat birds too, including a yellow-crowned night heron.
The only good 'coon is a dead 'coon.......... those little fackers are menaces.dh girlie said:I saw a dead raccoon on the busy street by my house...he died on the center median...
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Good God. I thought it was going to be some passed out stripper dude wearing only a few strips of duct tape.....
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They're pets where I come fromnarlus said:when i was in florida last week, otis and i headed to the swamp to take a walk (corkscrew nature preserve).
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in florida they eat pets.
This one at Gatorland was incarcerated there because he ate peoples dogs...narlus said:
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Isn't that more of a crime against humanity??? What if he had just eaten regular dogs???dh girlie said:
I corrected it...I meant he ate peoples pet dogs...loco said:
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Well - that's just not as funny of a thought.dh girlie said:
I think its not funny at all that he ate dogs...I'd rather see him eat humans....not just ANY human...but some I know of...loco said:
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Yeh - like "people dogs". I would hate to have my dog eaten. Did you read about Casey's teefusses???dh girlie said:
No...who is Casey and what happened to his/her teefusses?loco said:
We've got a pair of nesting hawks that hang out on campus here in the middle of the city. Last year one of them killed and ate a pidgeon right outside our office window. It was gross. Pretty impressive power.SuzyCreamcheese said:
Sorry for re-railing the thread, if such a thing is possible.
I thought the Falcons just ended up there because the habitat worked for them? There was "problem" in Stockton a few years ago with a Peregrine dropping pigeon carcasses on peoples heads from 10 or 20 stories up. The Falcon had nested in the BofA sign atop the highrise and after grubbing he'd discard the scraps to the pavement below, in this case the busy sidewalk.SuzyCreamcheese said:
Lisa, cool pic! I love birds of prey. I like how you can see his eye that's badass!
Forgot to mention a Raven swooped out of the sky and snatched my GF's pet cockateel right in her backyard, the cockateel exploded on impact and the raven flew away with what was left. My GF was crushed but damn if that ain't a good story none the less. sad but good...
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What would have been funnier than the lady driving down the road with the lovebird crapping on her shoulder would have been a hawk flying through and nabbing it.
We've got an owl that hangs out hooing all night in our yard, we named him Snoopy. We've also got red tail hawks, rattle snakes and mountain lions to round out the predator list. We've also got a few dozen different song birds (which my wife and daughter feed to keep them around) mice, jack rabbits and cottontails, squirrels, lizards, and the neighbor's dogs. I guess we live in what you could consider a rural area though.
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Wow, thats a regular ole menagerie you've got going on...I just see lots of squirrels, some birds and neighborhood cats...
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We get it. You have told us like 3 times just today. Sheeshdh girlie said:
