Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Ya Dirty Stool Pigeon (sometime the next day)

Hawkish
Greep just sent me this ...



As regular readers of this blog know, I’m often taking photos of interesting lawn art/sculptures that are often animals. So as I was walking up 11th Street near R I wasn’t too stunned to see what I thought was some more lawn art. Alas, what I saw was very different. And I’m still a little shaken up so forgive me if I curse a little bit in recounting this experience. So I’m admiring this “art” when I think to myself this is really an odd spot to place the piece. At this point I notice some feathers flying and I think “hmm this is weird.” Then the “sculpture” turns its head towards me and I jump about 10 feet straight up in the air. Holy shit, that is a freaking HAWK. Yeah, you read correctly a hawk…on 11th Street! When I fell back down to the ground, I rubbed my eyes and took a closer look again. At this point the hawk is staring at me and I could easily see from it’s eyes that it was telling me to back the fuck up. And back up I did. You see at this point I saw that it was sitting on something and I was like “damn it’s a mom and is sitting on its babies.” Uh, no. That was not the case. The hawk had just killed a pigeon…on 11th Street. A hawk. Insane. After the jump are a couple more photos one with a better view of the recently deceased. [More]

7 comments:

Juice said...

That's an awesome tale. Hawks eating pigeons. Great! Now, if only a few seagulls could be added to that menu?
We've got red tail hawks as regular fly overs and they are beautiful to behold. We were quite honored last week when one chose to rest on our fence. I took it as good luck.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, nuthin' beats takin' the wife and kids to the park and watchin' an ol' redtail strip the flesh from a squirrel.

Anonymous said...

Cool picture!
How far removed some folks are from the food chain life...
Well, freakin DUH- what the heck does he think hawks do for a living?
I haven't bumped into any at the meat counter yet.
Proly thinks that they make milk in the back o the store:-)
RAK

Anonymous said...

Well, I'd say the hawk is enjoying a change in his menu. After all, kittens and puppies can be boring after awhile.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Hey RAK, this is inner ciry DC, where there is a 10,000% greater liklihood of seeing a dead human than a live bird, other than a pigeon. Hell, those eagle pictures of yours even knocked me out. On the other hand, I get to see hundreds of bikinis every summer day.

Anonymous said...

Hey, we have Bikinis in AK.
http://flickr.com/photos/arctic_photos/2290691540/

(I still say he thinks milk is made in the back of the store and meat comes wrapped in plastic...
Rob

El Jefe said...

According to CINCHOUSE's twitchers book it looks like a Cooper's Hawk

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