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(268,968 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
Demovictory9
(32,453 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)I had to watch out for these. Even though my dog wore a sweater one time the red tailed coasted around for about 10 minutes. It didn't flap its wings once, just glided and glided. The friend I was with told me to get my dog since from high up it could look like any critter in a red sweater. I thought he was joking but when the hawk was still coasting after several minutes I realized he was right.
I saw one shred a smaller bird right outside of my classroom door. The 6 year old kids thought it was snowing (in CA) when they saw the poor bird's feathers floating down from the tree overhead.
RainCaster
(10,870 posts)We always go out with our new puppy because of them.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,369 posts)Notice that it's head remains perfectly still while the rest of it's body is moving around.
That reminds of the missile launchers on Navy ships, the ship can be pitching up and down, but the missile launcher will remain perfectly still.
brewens
(13,582 posts)Palouse Prairie in WA, you can see one about every mile along the highway. It's all rolling hills and they just sit there waiting to pounce. They can see everything so well, they don't even have to fly when the fields are all cut short.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)AdamGG
(1,291 posts)in the winter and then attacked fans a few times in the spring when they invaded their territory.