nicksiders
2112 posts
Aug 29, 2007
10:14 AM
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Yesterday I was visited by a juvinial Coopers Hawk. He did take a bird when I was away thinking that the hawks where gone for good. When I returned home and peered out the back door I saw this juvenial standing on the ground near his fresh kill. I rushed towards it clapping my hands and shouting. The hawk didn't even flinch and I kept coming towards it making all kinds of noise....it never moved, just looked at me as if to say "Hey, whats going on and why the commotion?" I could have reached down and picked it up. He did kinda fly-hop away about 10 feet, but he didn't want to fly away. I walked over and nudged him with my foot and he just flew upon a kitbox and looked at me as if trying to figure out what I was.
Now I had a delima. With all that is going on now days do I just grab him and take it somewhere to be safe and give safety to my birds? Just let him eat all he wants and do nothing? Many things went through my mind. After looking at me for several moments he flew off to the neighbors house roof; looked around for several minutes then flew off again and deposited a load of hawk shit onto my yard. I took the kill and deposited in a trash bag; sighed a bit and begin to think of ways to avoid these attacks one more time; one more year.
I am never going to print anymore hawk storys. I think it does nothing, but irratate everyone and raises the suspitions of the ignorant and fuels the stupidity of some federal agents.
Weird ain't it?
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Nick
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