The day after we moved into our new house I was walking through the front yard and suddenly I hear this "whoomp!" and a shower of feathers comes raining down around me.
I was lucky enough to look left (had I looked right I'd have missed it) and see the sillouette of a hawk with a pigeon in its grasp.
It was the coolest thing. Not a screech or sound from the pigeon. Death was instant.
In the year we've lived there we have discovered numerous circles of feathers in our front and back yard. I have yet to find where the hawk is nesting, but s/he must be nearby and love to picnic at our house. :)
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ninetydegrees
Close encounters of the raptor kind
on 2006-06-15 07:34 pm (UTC)I was lucky enough to look left (had I looked right I'd have missed it) and see the sillouette of a hawk with a pigeon in its grasp.
It was the coolest thing. Not a screech or sound from the pigeon. Death was instant.
In the year we've lived there we have discovered numerous circles of feathers in our front and back yard. I have yet to find where the hawk is nesting, but s/he must be nearby and love to picnic at our house. :)