Hawk Bombed Me With A Squirrel

[Huaco Kid]

On 6/3/2019 at 6:44 PM, railfancwb said:

Predatory birds - raptors and others - often drop prey from height to stun or kill it.

I guess that makes perfect sense.  "I could either die while fighting this thing on a tree branch, or bombs awwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy."

[Huaco Kid]

5 hours ago, Foxterriermom said:

I felt bad for the dove, but it's the way of nature.

We were on the roof of a huge industrial plant and the guys were telling me about the falcons nesting around there.  Then they noted that they hadn't seen any in a while.  At that exact instant,  I looked down and found a dried-up bird's leg with a band on it.  I said, "Here's your falcon right here."

The environmental guy took the leg.  I don't know who had the database (some college probably) (These plants have to report when they have nests,  so they can be documented),  but he came back later and said it was from some guy's racing pigeon from several states away.

POW!

I guess he lost that race.