I was walking around my neighborhood a few weeks ago and came upon a red tailed hawk sitting on the sidewalk eating a rabbit. He just glared at me until I was about 5' from him, then he lumbered off into the air with his lunch held in his talons.

Guess he wanted to eat where there was more privacy.

I've also seen this same hawk trying to run down a pigeon in mid air. The pigeon was flying as hard as he could, swerving in between trees and houses with the hawk right behind him, matching his aerial maneuvers and closing in. Then the pigeon went straight up the side of a house and over the top; the hawk said "fark, can't touch that" and had to pull up.

"Fool of a Took!"

/obligatory?

cabritosaurio: Is there anything in the world that smells worse than a good amount of pigeon excrement?

Seagull excrement. In my opinion, gulls are larger, smellier, fishier, noisier, and more dangerous versions of pigeons. Peregrines should try taking down a few of those buggers in future...

Molavian wrote:
"Protip: blocking traffic is bad."

Pfft, *Traffic* is bad. Let's eliminate traffic and let nature take its place.

Stupid humans.

pix?

Screaming caterpillar wants a piece of this action

PacManDreaming: While driving to the store, I made a turn onto a road when all of a sudden, about 50 yards in front of me, a red-tailed hawk caught a grackle and took him to the ground. Unfortunately, this was in the middle of the road. I came to a stop a few feet from them and the hawk just glared at me. I had to back up and go around him. He was a ballsy little bird for sure. He's lucky other people were around and watching, otherwise, he might've been a feathered pancake.

Something similar happened to me. The hawk caught a bird basically right as it passed over the hood of my truck. Was pretty cool to see, and somewhat wakes you up when you're driving home from work half-asleep.

Gryn: Jesus farking Christ on a Chopstick! (No, not a pogo stick)

What's wrong with you people? Just because some bird is higher up on the food chain, you think it's cool that it's eating a pigeon?

Someday the Aliens will arrive, and they will be "Serving Humans" to their guests in the cafeteria.
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Peter Jackson would like a word with you.



Hot like human stew

Molavian wrote:
"Do I smell patchouli"

Perhaps it's the smell of your own decay.

Your "progress" will be the death of everything.

Grr... try this again

Gryn: Jesus farking Christ on a Chopstick! (No, not a pogo stick)

What's wrong with you people? Just because some bird is higher up on the food chain, you think it's cool that it's eating a pigeon?

Someday the Aliens will arrive, and they will be "Serving Humans" to their guests in the cafeteria.
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Peter Jackson would like a word with you.

We have a hawk that hangs out in our backyard. This isn't it, but he/she is a dead ringer. I'm trying to find the pictures we've taken.



Sucker swoops into the yard, then just stares at us like "make a move, biatch." I swear it could pick up my ten year old. Daughter, not the one chained to the radiator in the basement.

I watched a hawk pluck a pigeon off of my neighbor's roof back in December. He ate it in my front yard. It was amazing to see.

Sometimes they come with notes attached. It's like a fortune cookie with wings.

/Obscure?

Why do cops hate doves? Those are Jebus' favorite bird!

Dang it... this time it'll work. Mods, please get rid of the last 2 screwups


Gryn: Jesus farking Christ on a Chopstick! (No, not a pogo stick)

What's wrong with you people? Just because some bird is higher up on the food chain, you think it's cool that it's eating a pigeon?

Someday the Aliens will arrive, and they will be "Serving Humans" to their guests in the cafeteria.
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Peter Jackson would like a word with you.

Gryn: What's wrong with you people? Just because some bird is higher up on the food chain, you think it's cool that it's eating a pigeon?

I think that we all just think that there are way too many pigeons in most places. They're vermin, like the black rat.

Back in 2000, I was in a meeting room in a corner office in Boston, and as I looked out the window down Otis street, I saw some kind of big-arse bird of prey take a pigeon on the wing and carry it up over the window that I was looking out.

Very very cool.

/Slightly worried

Yippie kai yea Mr. Falcon.

Molavian wrote:
"Actually, the heat death of the universe will be the death of everything."

Are you hinting at Entropy?

"One of the most important principles of physics, that disorder, or entropy, always increases, has been shown to be untrue."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2135779.stm

I doubt there will be any "heat death" of anything but our planet Earth.

Neocon.

Gryn: Molavian wrote:
"Do I smell patchouli"

Perhaps it's the smell of your own decay.

Your "progress" will be the death of everything.

You can't actually believe that.

Gryn: Molavian wrote:
"Actually, the heat death of the universe will be the death of everything."

Are you hinting at Entropy?

"One of the most important principles of physics, that disorder, or entropy, always increases, has been shown to be untrue."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2135779.stm

I doubt there will be any "heat death" of anything but our planet Earth.

Neocon.

Alright, now I know you're trolling.

stryker4526 wrote:
"You can't actually believe that."

And why not? Are you suggesting paved roads and factories are progress over clean air and virgin fields?

HOW DARE THIS COP STOP ME FROM DRIVING MY SUV! I AM SO OUTRAGED!

/+1 Subby

lesliebeslie: I watched a hawk pluck a pigeon off of my neighbor's roof back in December. He ate it in my front yard. It was amazing to see.



What's that white stuff in your yard?

orat-on-a-stick: lesliebeslie: I watched a hawk pluck a pigeon off of my neighbor's roof back in December. He ate it in my front yard. It was amazing to see.



What's that white stuff in your yard?

Blow.

Charlie Freak wrote:
"Hey, look at me! No, over here, look at me!"

Haha! Sorry, did I take the attention away from you?

Oh wait.. who said this? ""We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

No, really? Anais Nin?

What's with all the pigeon hate?

I had a pigeon as a pet when I was a kid, he fakin rocked, used to land on my head when I'd go out the back garden and follow me everywhere. Sometimes I'd take him to school and let him go and he'd be back home when I returned.



RIP Declan :(

Sorry, I agree with Bob Uecker...

Rats with wings!

/He was a lifetime .200 hitter.
//Not bad for a catcher...

My college had a red-tailed hawk that would hang around to pick off the fat, over-confident squirrels. She had no fear of the students and once she perched in a low hanging branch in front of me just above my eye level which was awing.

But my favorite memory of her was when she was perched right outside one of the dining halls, cheerfully ripping into a freshly caught squirrel, in view of everyone. Some of the more hippie styled students were appalled, other students not used to wildlife were disgusted at seeing it. I just liked that she used the dining hall like we did.



My parents' had a mated pair of them on their property, but the male was killed, most likely clipped by a truck while hunting off of Route 50 (they can't eat carrion, but they can eat things that they witnessed get killed because they know they're freshly dead). The female flew that whole distance back (with breaks) with his body in her talons back to our property where she laid him down and flew off. She left our property not too long after his death.

cabritosaurio: myalias1845: cabritosaurio: Is there anything in the world that smells worse than a good amount of pigeon excrement?

Your mom's queefs.

/sorry, that just came out

that's what she said

*snert

Great use of the hero tag today. Go falcons!

lajimi: I was filling my bird feeders a couple of weeks ago when this falcon or hawk or whatever it was came in less than a couple of feet over my head like a lightning bolt. It landed on this pigeon and just started to eat about ten feet from me. No fear, it just sat there while I got my cell phone camera out and took a couple of pictures.


That's a multipurpose bird feeder, not only does it feed song birds but also birds of prey.

spyderqueen:
My parents' had a mated pair of them on their property, but the male was killed, most likely clipped by a truck while hunting off of Route 50 (they can't eat carrion, but they can eat things that they witnessed get killed because they know they're freshly dead). The female flew that whole distance back (with breaks) with his body in her talons back to our property where she laid him down and flew off. She left our property not too long after his death.

This is great to read while humming 'Bright Eyes'

Gryn: stryker4526 wrote:
"You can't actually believe that."

And why not? Are you suggesting paved roads and factories are progress over clean air and virgin fields?

Uhm... yes. High technology is progress over living in caves. Also, with the filtering technology that factories are generally required to have, the air isn't actually that much more polluted, comparatively.

Thank God no one had anywhere to be.

shawnshawnery: Thank God no one had anywhere to be.

Oh, poor babies! They were late to a mochachini party

shawnshawnery: Thank God no one had anywhere to be.

They'll get over it. It's not like the world will end if they're a half-hour late. And as a pre-emptive: if they would lose their job for being a half-hour late, they were already about to lose their job anyway.

Crid: Sometimes they come with notes attached. It's like a fortune cookie with wings.

/Obscure?

On the contrary, Blackadder....



"You ate my Speckled Jim!?!?!"

Cormee: What's with all the pigeon hate?

I had a pigeon as a pet when I was a kid, he fakin rocked, used to land on my head when I'd go out the back garden and follow me everywhere. Sometimes I'd take him to school and let him go and he'd be back home when I returned.



RIP Declan :(

The pigeon is 1 of 3 birds federally classified as a pest, the others being the house sparrow, and the starling. Because they are invasive pests that can cause physical damage to structures (droppings cause staining, and can corrode thin metals) and more importantly health issues on par with rodent infestations the EPA allows the pest control industry to kill them like mice.

FYI:
All of these are bird-borne diseases.
¦ Avian Flu
¦ Fowl Typhoid
¦ Infectious Coryza
¦ Paratyphoid
¦ Salmonellosis
¦ Streptococosis
¦ Tuberculosis
¦ Aspertillosis
¦ Blastomycosis
¦ Cryptococcosis
¦ Histoplasmosis
¦ Trypansomiasis
¦ Toxoplasmosis
¦ Chlamydiosis
¦ QFever
¦ Encephalitis
¦ Meningitis
¦ Newcastle Disease
¦ Pox
¦ Taeniasis
¦ Dispharyxiasis
¦ Eyeworm
¦ Schistosomiasis
¦ Acariasis
¦ Trichomoniasis