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22 March 2006

I saw a hawk while I was walking in to work this morning. My work is in such an industrial desert that it's almost shocking to see any sign of nature. Anyway, how are you?
Nice. I remember once driving through Western and Southern Virginia in late December, and I must have caught some sort of hawk migration, because I saw about 5 during the drive down 81. There is something so thrilling about birds of prey.

And I'm fine.
posted by omiewise 22 March | 10:17
We have a lot of chicken hawks around here, and they're a LOT bigger than you think. Seeing one swoop down to catch prey is freaky scary.

Especially if you're a chicken.
posted by iconomy 22 March | 10:17
≡ Click to see image ≡

You mean they don't look like this? (this little guy on the right :P )
posted by LunaticFringe 22 March | 10:19
Ohio is TEEMING with hawks for the last couple years. Some kind of population explosion. Which means a pop. explosion of the animals they feed on? They're pretty awesome to watch. Some are just freakin' huge.
posted by shane 22 March | 10:25
Birds of prey know they are cool.
posted by sarah connor 22 March | 11:00
One swooped past my head and screeched the other day. Scared the living hell out of me.
posted by jrossi4r 22 March | 11:09
Hawk migration/mating right now. My last few highway drives, I've seen a ton of sharp-shinned, Cooper's, harriers, and red-tailed hawks.

If you live where there are eagles, they're forming nesting pairs right now. You'll see them courting.
posted by Miko 22 March | 11:14
Cool, Miko. We have mostly red-tailed, but I have a little broad-winged hawk who occasionally visits my backyard (even in the winter when they supposedly move a little further west.) You can tell he's there when all the other birds flock to the trees surrounding the birdfeed and squawk bloody murder to warn each other. Very cool to see/hear.
posted by shane 22 March | 11:23
I used to work in a skyscraper with a family of falcons living at the top. One day one of them came and sat on window sill outside the window right next to my desk. He (or she) sat and stared at me for 10 or 15 minutes only about a foot from me on the other side of the glass. It was a very cool moment.
posted by octothorpe 22 March | 12:30
A cell tower on the street where I work (which is also an industrial park) had a family of red-tailed hawks in it for a few years. They just like being 'way up, I guess.
posted by deadcowdan 22 March | 12:44
In related news -- Wily coyote finally captured in N.Y.'s Central Park .
posted by ericb 22 March | 13:06
white squirrel!
posted by moonbird 22 March | 13:25
The word "wily" is so underused.
posted by Miko 22 March | 13:37
On Penn Jillette's radio show, a while ago they were talking about a stripper with the best stage name ever: Kylie Wyote

posted by Capn 22 March | 13:42
Hawks like industrial areas. They have open spaces and rodents.

Last summer a woman near my home tied her little dog in the yard and a hawk took it.
posted by arse_hat 22 March | 13:56
Benepe said [Hal the wily coyote] would be taken to an upstate wildlife facility after capture.

*Phew* That's cool. In Ohio they just kill 'em. Coyotes are so damned misunderstood. I love 'em.
posted by shane 22 March | 14:00
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