While it was shocking to see, she and her bf witnessed a bald eagle slam a large owl to the ground and attack it they ran outside and the eagle took off, the owl was still alive so they put it in the old dog house incase it was just stunned but, it died over night so they buried it. There are wild rabbits all over the place, I have to stop the car many times just driving down the long dirt road as to not run over them, don't know why the Eagle went after the Owl and do not know why the large owl was out and about during the day but, the moment she told me my mind went straight to the symbology of it all. Eagle taking out the Owl.
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That’s sad. Do you know what kind of owl it was? Sounds like they did the best they could. Birds are great about hiding illness and injury. It was probably mortally wounded and at least had a peaceful death.
I’ve found hawk feathers in my yard. We have a lot of red shouldered hawks my my neighborhood. By a lot, I mean every day you hear them multiple times. They sit on light posts and look down at you as you walk by. I feel blessed by them. Anyway, one day I saw some stuff in my grass and went to check it out and found multiple hawk feathers, bloody and strewn in clusters all over. It was beyond upsetting. You’re not supposed to keep them so I just gathered them and put them beneath my live oak. Nature is brutal sometimes. The owls harass the hawks and eagles, they fight over territory and the crows harass the hawks. I watch a Fort Myers eagle family cam and the great horned owls are always attacking the eagles during nesting season. I love the birds though and have one as a pet.
I feed the crows every morning raw peanuts. They disappear for the winter but come back reliably every late May. I always wonder if they’ll be back and then one day, sure enough they’re waiting by the back door early in the morning. I see the same one usually at first because he/she has a little tuft of white on the shoulder. Then he calls his fam and more show up. They make my day, to be honest.
Crows and Ravens are notorious as being smart birds
I have seen crows in Texas but only saw a raven a couple of times. Those birds are huge.
I feed peanuts to crows, ravens and a couple different kinds of blackbirds on my daily hike to work and back. They all know me by sight but the crows are my favorites. I recently got a crow call and have been practicing cawing back and forth with the birds. One pair seem especially amused by my efforts, and one of them seems to egg me on with call & answer play. It also has started garbling voicelike noises in with his chatters, so I throw in some words ("Hello! "Good to see you!"...) so maybe he (or she) can learn to speak. Our language exchange program, kek!
Yep, very smart.
she said it was barn owl but, when she described it's size it seemed more the size of a great horned or short ear.. both in the area as well and barn owls have that heart face. Yeah, it was upsetting, always is when stuff like that happens as natrual as it is. They buried it in the garden next to a chicken that they had and died all topped with rocks and a decorated stick cross .. lol, love my sista.
Cant keep them? says who? That's crap.
On Navajo res you weren't supposed to pick up and keep anything.
My Indian buddies always said, "fk the BLM and the govt. These pottery pieces and shit belonged to my family. Take it. It's yours, man "
Unless you wantonly killed a hawk, you can keep the feathers. No one owns feathers or birds.
Check out old school bikers , esp around here , they have hawk feathers/tails, turkey feathers and all sorts of stuff as decoration.
The hawk as a blessing? It's the habitat.
Used to have an owl outside my window every night, told the Navs, "Oooo, someone's going to die!" No one died. I just thought it was mating calls...
https://www.featherfolio.com/blog/guide-to-legal-and-illegal-feathers-in-the-usa “A law called the (U.S.) North American Migratory Bird Act was made a long time ago when people were killing too many birds to use for fashionable hats. It’s a broad-brush law intended to protect birds. It doesn’t recognize the difference between plucked feathers, shed feathers, or bird skins; you can’t have any of it”
I’m really into birds. I’ll respect that law. Idk what your friends do or if the law even applies to Native Americans but I’m gonna respect the birds and the law.
So when a hawk feather lands in my yard and I take it in, put it on the table till someone tosses it out, is against the law?
I do obey the law, not imbecilc ones. They lied about DDT, so I don't believe their bird counts either. Like no birds are killed by windmills, but they are.
No one kills hawks for decor. Usually a road kill or natural death only.
There's a hawk just above the dam right now in a clump of feathers in the road.. bad timing!
We have nesting great blue herons, turkey vultures and hawks near and above the dam, as well.
Was in Cherokee, NC today...everyone should see that landscape at least once. NOT Gatlinburg!
Love the birds!