That sounds tremendous, that hawk activity, WW.
I was in our garden once when some sort of raptor took a blackbird. It looked
like a pigeon, in size and colour, but it was a blur. The space in which the
blackbird was eating on the ground was pretty small, about 5 x 5 m, so the
raptor had to have been very accurate with its stoop.
Chris
> On 3 Dec 18, at 22:52, Willie Wonka via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> The saddest video I have ever seen was ironically from an older America's
> Funniest Videos show in which a father and a son were playing with the family
> pet hamster on the backyard. The hamster was on the top of the cage chewing
> happily on something when suddenly a hawk showed up from nowhere and grabbed
> it in its claws. Although, the humans were within an arms reach, everything
> happened so fast that they were unable to react.
> OTOH, in Bulgaria there is an unique hawk species which while it plays, it
> ascents very high in the sky, then stops and freely falls randomly rotating
> as it were shot. Once it reaches about 10-20m (30-60ft), it stops pretending
> and repeats. I was lucky to experience that on number of occasions. Pretty
> sure there is a video somewhere on youtube...
> Best
> Boris
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