Evening Visitor
This was just crazy. I wish I knew more about video but for now pictures will do. I was sitting dropping some Entrecards and out of the corner of my eye I see this big flying shadow that landed on our back fence. So I take an easy approach off of the couch and slide to the floor cause I don’t want to scare it off. Then I realize, wow this is some type of hawk. At first I thought it just landed to view the grass area behind us until my wife pointed out that it had something in it’s talons.
After we started watching this bird eat dinner (on our fence) we started to discuss what it could be eating. First we thought it was a mouse or rat then we moved to maybe a mole. Then it hit us.. No long tail, so it was a baby bunny.
This was just crazy watching this happen in our yard, and watching the hawk consume this animal. Then the bad part, the hawk didn’t eat the whole thing so we had to go clean up some of it’s insides off the fence and some fur that was spread everywhere. But wow, it was cool to watch.. Here are a couple of pictures.
Tags: Birds, Birds of Prey, Bunny, Hawk, Nature
General, Indescribable | tazdog, May 24, 2008 6:48 pm
Behrad — May 25, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
Hmm.. I would go for the baby bunny too.. Cool pictures, I love hawks!!
Yes.. cleaning the mess of a dead animal! :S I know what you’re talking about.. I’ve had a dead mouse as a “gift” from our cat in the past! :p
tazdog — May 25, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
yeah it was disgusting when the hawk pulled out the intestines and threw them all over the fence.