Most mornings when I go out to get my news paper from the
drive way around odark thirty as it is just changing from night to morning I
can see the shadow of a small Hawk sitting on the top of my roof.
This Hawk and his buddies seem to like to perch on the crest
of the room of my house so they can watch for other birds (fly by meals)
approaching and departing from Bonita Pond located just across the street from
my house.
Since my Hawk Buddy sits on the crest of my roof the only time
I get to see him is when I go out to get the news paper, while my back door
neighbor Robbie has what we will call a Bird’s Eye View of my Hawk Buddy and
his Hawk friends in action.
This morning early I saw my Hawk Buddy on the roof as I rode
off into the sun rise on my tricycle and knew he and his friends would be
hunting for fly by birds as they came in out of the sun and were not able to
see the Hawks sitting on the roof.
Robbie my back door neighbor called my wife Ann (I was still
out on the trike) and told her what he saw and was observing while sitting on
his back porch lanai - the Hawk apparently sprang into action and flew straight
into the sun and stunned an unsuspecting bird on the way to Bonita Pond.
The
Hawk then flew his stunned pray to the ground, by that time the victim bird was
dead, he did not survive the vicious (brutal,ferocious, savage, violent, dangerous, ruthless, remorseless,merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, coldblooded, inhuman, fierce,barbarous, barbaric, brutish, bloodthirsty, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous,
murderous, homicidal) attack.
The Hawk then
started to remove all of the feathers from his morning meal and did so quickly
in case another Hawk was interested in his morning snack, once the snack was
without feathers, the Hawk took his snack and flew away to enjoy his meal
without Robbie watching. This was way too much information for Ann who is a
bird lover, but Ann appreciated Robbie calling.
When I arrived
home Ann told me about the call from Robbie, I got a cup of coffee and my
camera and made my way to the back yard area to see what sort of mess was left.
As I approached
the lanai I could not see anything, once I was in the backyard area there was a
large area of the yard covered in gray feathers. A closer view of the feathers
did not find any blood or bone in the grass, only gray feathers, the Hawk did
not leave anything except feathers.
A quick look about
the area found nothing but a snicker wrapper, so am thinking if we find a Hawk
eating a snicker while waiting on fly by bird meals we will have the Hawk who
finished off the bird for a quick snack.
Life is always fun
and exciting in The Villages, Florida – Smiles.
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