While eating dinner on Monday evening after the deluge rainstorm subsided, my summer house sitter and I were chit-chatting about care of the chickens and Reuben, the Welsh Terrier terrorist. Out of nowhere came a horrific crash into the dining room window.
Outside on the picnic table lay a window-stunned Hawk of some variety, with a Mourning dove tucked underneath. The Hawk was flapping its wings wildly while stunned upon the table. The dove was very much alive and attempting to escape from underneath the body of the Hawk. Reuben, meanwhile, was sniffing the two bird sprawled out on his little childs picnic table where he lays around watching the goings on in the backyard. He slipped a distance away, in awe of what had happened.
Solomon and I raced to the back door to ensure Reuben didn't eat the birds and to hopefully prevent a further bird altercation. The dove managed to slip away during the time it took to get through kitchen and out the back door. The quivering Hawk was also perched high up in the Green Ash tree of my next door neighbor, some twenty feet or more above us.
A few feathers were "glued" to the window that had been the Hawks unfortunate destination, and a little bird blood. Needless to say, having a Hawk fly into your dining room window is not an every day occurrence. Guess I'm going to have to get one of those "bird" images for the window, because this is the second time a bird has flown into the window.
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