I’m sorry if this traumatizes anyone but I just have to share. N. and I were at The Hedgehogs earlier today. We stopped to admire the view out of the living room window and saw a big hawk land on our deck. The hawk clawed off a huge chunk of the deck and then he grabbed a small bird flying nearby and carried it away.
Maybe it was a mistake for me to start living so close to all the real nature because now I have these images of hawks landing on my head.
I had a hawk slam full-speed in my bedroom window once. Poor thing looked so confused afterwards.
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This sounds more like a falcon. But whichever it was, hawks, falcons, owls, and eagles are magnificent birds
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These are beautiful birds, but they only attack targets that are smaller than themselves. My personal favorite, not mentioned, is the bat — they eat mosquitos!
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Eating mosquitoes is a wonderful trait, but somehow bats do not seem to fit into a discussion of birds.
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Damnable traumatising hawks
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Actually, I love the Merlins and the Sparrow Hawks, the Sharp Shinned Hawks not so much because they chase the song birds right into our hedge. But realistically, they are all just trying to feed their young.
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// Maybe it was a mistake for me to start living so close to all the real nature because now I have these images of hawks landing on my head.
You are much more likely to encounter some mice. 🙂 Btw, are you afraid of them?
“Apparently, mice think that women are useless. I don’t mean that they think women mice are useless — they’re keen enough on them, all right. I mean women women… All women, everywhere. Some scientists in Canada carried out a study about what mice think of women, and this is what emerged.
I don’t know how the study was carried out, whether it was multiple choice questionnaires or what have you — or indeed why it was carried out, or if the mice were sent on some sort of corrective gender equality course afterwards at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer. But whatever, mice get scared as hell if a man is around and start preparing escape strategies — they get really stressy and distrait. But women induce in them no fears or worries whatsoever, they just carry on with their business, nibbling stuff, even if they are visually impaired and the woman in question is the wife of a farmer and is brandishing a large carving knife.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/rod-liddle/9195851/rod-liddle-would-sasha-the-labrador-have-approved-of-our-incursion-in-afghanistan/
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A very obvious case of projection. The guy’s therapist would be happy to get his hands on this piece.
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