{"id":155,"date":"2018-12-09T15:08:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nostorynorm.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2018-12-09T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T20:08:25","slug":"hungry-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostorynorm.com\/blog\/hungry-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mid-October, Sunday afternoon.
\nI walked into the kitchen to find our house cat sitting on the table and gazing intently out the back window. Looking out, I saw a large predator bird, a hawk I think, perched on the deck railing with a freshly caught meal, probably a pigeon. I found a camera and took this picture through the window.<\/p>\n

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Hoping for a better shot, I went out the front door and walked around the house but as soon as I came around the back corner, about 50 feet away, it saw me and stared right at me. I took a quick pic and backed away as it seemed like it might abandon lunch if I stuck around.<\/p>\n

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Back inside I was able to get much closer as the window was only about 6 feet away and the big bird didn’t seem to notice us through the window. So I found the cleanest spot on the window and took more pictures from there. It ate everything, leaving nothing but a grease spot and a feather on the railing. It stuck around and posed for a while before flying off. The whole episode was about an hour.<\/p>\n

Here’s some more of the pictures.<\/p>\n

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all photos by the author.
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