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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One of the coolest things I ever saw like that was a peregrine falcon take a dove. It used the momentum from an almost vertical dive to flatten out and glide about 100 feet only a couple feet off the ground into a group of doves. They all took off but the falcon grabbed one in an explosion of feathers
Awesome!
About 20 yrs ago, by chance, we looked over and saw some wild turkeys in a field and in an instant, a golden eagle swooped, turned sideways and, as you said, it exploded the turkey into Lindell stuffing!
Mind-blowing
I witnessed a group of crows attack a red tail hawk's nest once, strangest thing I ever saw.
As most of the crows would engage in arial combat with the hawk, literally mid air collision, a few of the crows would grab the fledgling, flying high and dropping them on the concrete, flying down grabbing them to drop once more. The crows ended up killing all three of the fledgling.
My Girlfriend at the time was a bird freak, and had all kind of feeders up, so it was a buffet for the hawks, the crows didn't eat the fledglings. It was territorial or revenge.
Strangest thing I've ever seen crows do.
It's Chicago in bird world.
It was coordinate and relentless, I gained a new respect for crows that day.
Birdbrain just didn't apply anymore.
I believe the crew of crows would have ruled
Chit-cago...
a group of crows is called a murder of crows so they prolly love chicongo
We have a crow family that raises 1 or 2 babies a year.
They and their murder will aerial assault starlings and drive hundreds+ away. It's like coordinated squadrons. So cool. Better than loud noises, etc
And they did to a golden what you described vs the hawk!
Crows also can remember you by face and body shape; if you are an ahole to them they will scream at you AND tell their buddies and they'll do the same! So cool.
Yea. I've read since they are as smart as teens, (I'm assuming past generations of our teens).
Sounds like you have a cool setup.
What's your thoughts on raising pigeons for food in a SHTF situation.
For a brief time I had a pair in my youth, trapped them under a bridge. Used a old dresser drawers for a hutch.
Once it was discovered what I was doing, the pigeons were killed because attempts to drive them off were unsuccessful (Stupid woman).
There's a large population in town about 20 miles away, should I only expect 2 gen not to reintegrate with town flock?
I know it's done, but I'm not educated on it. Sorry
I saw a hawk swoop in one time and take one of three pigeons sitting high on a light post where I used to work. They tumbled in air towards the building where I was working and hit the side of it tumbling to the ground. Instantly they were both under one of our customers cars and I saw feathers flying. An instant later the hawk carried it across the street to some train tracks and then I saw more feathers flying. Craziest animal attack I ever witnessed.
I saw a hawk dive in and grab a frog and you could see the legs dangling. Another got a chipmunk from the same spot and it made me sad because I loved watching the little "chippies". We have tons of squirrels but NO they don't seem to like them, only the cute little chipmunks. Now we don't see many of them.