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 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!