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I just witnessed murder! Anonymous
Standing at the window on a cold and snowy day I was looking out the window at my various bird feeders. On the railing of my deck stood one lone mourning dove looking at me stupidly; the next thing I knew there was outstretched wings and something landed on the deck.

It was a hawk; like this guy in the pic, with the late mourning dove under his talons. I've seen this on TV of course but it's shocking to watch it happen right in front of your eyes. That dove never knew what hit him. One second he's giving me that retarded-dove look the next second he was hawk food and the Hawk is looking at me like "What?"

This has to be the single most awesome thing that has happened in my backyard. (At least while I was watching.)
>> Anonymous
I saw something similar once, but with a tiny black spider and a tiny black wasp. The spider was sitting under my porch, and the wasp flies up and stings it, then tries to manhandle it into a hole in between two boards. Then it dropped it on the ground and flew off. Ok, so it was nothing like it, but still.
>> Anonymous
I watched my cat run down a rabbit once. I was horrified when she brought the corpse up to the back step. She'd broken the poor thing's neck, but she was pleased as punch when she gave us the "gift."

D:
>> Anonymous
That's cool.

I remember a gray heron landing in our back yard, probably hoping for fish in our tiny pond. That bird looked huge in our little yard.
>> Anonymous
My adorable miniature dachschund is a ferocious killer.

We've had a family of bunnies living under some part of our lawn for as long as I can remember. Sometime last year I was taking him out for a walk. We have a bunch of thick ferns by our house that animals like to hide in, and he likes to smell around in there, so I just stand and let him crawl around in there until he's ready to move on.

This time though, he got about a foot in and then just froze. I couldn't see anything, just the suddenly slack leash I was holding onto. Half a second later I feel him lunge forward and I hear a bunch of frantic squeaks. I pull him out, and he's got a baby bunny in his mouth. I took it away from him of course, but still. Normally he's pretty incompetent about chasing small animals.
>> Anonymous
Ah... Similar stuff has happened to me. I didn't actually see it (rather, I heard it) but when we used to have a pet chicken, my mom saw a hawk swoop down and attack it. There was a bunch of squawking (I'm assuming my chicken went into DEFENSE MODE) and then the hawk flew away.

Another time, I saw the shadow of a hawk swoop down in my backyard. Terrified the hell out of my bunny.

And when I was walking home from school one day, a red-tailed hawk flew down right above me. I think it was a few feet higher than my head. Pretty fucking awesome. I love living next to a river.
>> Anonymous
>>61845
>And when I was walking home from school one day, a red-tailed hawk flew down right above me. I think it was a few feet higher than my head. Pretty fucking awesome. I love living next to a river.

Tobias?!
>> Anonymous
>>61788
thats nothing. I saw one of my chickens get totally torn apart and eaten by a red-tailed hawk once. It was fucking hard core.
>> Anonymous
Just a few months ago there was a young red tailed hawk watching my rabbits. It almost made me want to feed it one of them, but I loveded my rabbits.

But my dalmatian is a vicious killer and I encourage it. She's killed mice, rats, raccoons, 6 groundhogs in two days, birds, etc. But to humans she's the nicest everything ever.

Its fun to watch her try and dig for the shrews under my porch.
>> Anonymous
>>61848
Huck Finn?!
>> Anonymous
>>61871

>raccoon

Hell yeah. Kill those fuckers. I haet raccoons.
>> Anonymous
There was a red tail hawk that roosted somewhere in my neighborhood. One day I was on a walk with my dad and we walked by a squirrel burying acorns for winter, and then SWOOSH the hawk flies not 5 feet from us right across our field of vision and hits the squirrel, flapping off with it. The most disturbing part was the squirrel screeching as it got hit and then the sound of it's screetches getting fainter as the bird flew off. Hawks and Falcons are bad ass birds.
>> Anonymous
>>61820
>She'd broken the poor thing's neck, but she was pleased as punch when she gave us the "gift."

At least you know your cat loves you. :)

>>This thread
America has the coolest fucking wildlife evor.
>> Anonymous
We live in Florida, so in the summer there's plenty of lizards literally climbing the walls outside our house. They're pretty cool to watch scamper around.

Our cat used to like to chase them down. They'd seperate their tails and escape, and she'd bring the tails to us.

Then we got a new cat. One day I'm outside and I see some lizard, look at it for a second, and from NOWHERE the new kitty jumps on him, slashes his abdomen open, and begins eating the lizard's guts while it's still alive.

He does not offer me any lizard remains afterword.
>> Anonymous
I once saw this spider lunge at a fly, then insert its fangs into it. It was a "woah" moment, since I've always seen spiders as harmless critters before.
>> Anonymous
There are no hawks where I live (Netherlands) But from my balcony I once saw a flock of crows hanging around a trashbin with a single raven among them. (A raven is the same color but significantly bigger than a crow) It was like the raven was the leader of the gang, the crows really seemed to follow him! It was a really cool sight.
>> Anonymous
I was looking out the kitchen window at a tree in our neighbours garden, and a huge-ass hawk thing landed on one of the branches. I thought it was a kestrel at first, then I realised that kestrels are tiny things and this thing was massive. Then it flew off. =(
>> Anonymous
Oh, and on holiday in Wales were there are these rare birds called Red Kites, we saw one swooping over the landscape (hills and valleys and such). Very cool. It flies out of sight for about five seconds, then it's all "EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEE EEEEEEEEE" as it chases this little sparrow. Wasn't sure who to root for. =/
>> Anonymous
We don't have fox or wolves in my area, we have these scraggly things called cyotes that start howling every time an emergency vehicle goes by, and we live next to the trans-canada highway.

Fucking cyotes.

Anyways, my cat kills cottontails on a regular basis, and squirrels if they are small enough. The creepy thing about the cottontails is that he only eats the head.
>> SealMan
>>61848

Think I'm the only person who got that.
>> JVR
I have a sharp-shinned hawk that always watches my bird feeder, haven't seen it catch anything yet, but I know it has becasue I'm alwas finding little tufts of feathers around.
>> Anonymous
My aunt keeps chickens and her old coop had a small gap under the door when it was closed, too small for a chicken but big enough for them to peek out.

An owl or something was flying into the chicken's closed off pen and biting off their heads. It couldn't get the rest of them out the door. There'd be a row of dead chickens up against the door each morning, completely blocking it. Apparently the first chicken getting snuffed makes the others curious.
>> Anonymous
>>63109
That could have also been a fox or a coyote.
Chickens are some of the stupidest animals on the planet. We used to have some. All of the juvenile chickens, and most of the hens, would roost up in this tree in a big line on one branch. While they were asleep you can do anything to them. So owls would perch right next to the base of the tree branch, and start shuffling over little by little. The chicken on the end (usually a juvenile) would fall off, at which point the owl would swoop off of the branch and take it away without alerting all of the other chickens.
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>>62928
I got it as well...Animorphs 4ever