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I woke up this morning and found a sparrowhawk in my garden

post #1 of 32
3/23/08 at 6:00pm
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One of the benefits of living out in the country I suppose, so I guess this is just another post awesome shit about where you live thread.
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post #2 of 32
3/23/08 at 6:06pm
I live in the middle of the city. I'm more likely to see a chickenhawk.
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post #3 of 32
3/23/08 at 6:07pm
What's going on UNDER the sparrowhawk? Are those feathers all around?
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post #4 of 32
3/23/08 at 6:12pm
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What's going on UNDER the sparrowhawk? Are those feathers all around?
I'm guessing he's either fucking or fucking UP that pigeon under him.
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post #5 of 32
3/23/08 at 6:26pm
Hope you got yourself a gun.
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post #6 of 32
3/23/08 at 6:26pm
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That is a pigeon, if you click the picture it'll blow up so you can see it better.
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post #7 of 32
3/23/08 at 7:16pm
Is he tyrying to fuck that pigeon, eat it or both? Sick shit goes on out in the country, man.
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post #8 of 32
3/23/08 at 7:34pm
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Is he tyrying to fuck that pigeon, eat it or both? Sick shit goes on out in the country, man.
Ask Spike what he had for dinner today.
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post #9 of 32
3/24/08 at 9:58am
I spotted Hawk in my garden this morning. Every year he returns and I know Spring is right around the corner.
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post #10 of 32
3/24/08 at 10:35am
I'm more amazed at the green grass in that picture; I woke up this morning to another inch of snow on the ground, dammit.

Spring my ASS...it's only 17 degrees outside.
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post #11 of 32
3/24/08 at 10:46am
It's the Easter Sparrowhawk! Instead of colorful eggs and chocolate, he brings you... half-eaten pigeons?

God, the British are weird...
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post #12 of 32
3/24/08 at 10:49am
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What's going on UNDER the sparrowhawk?
Fuckin' Sparrowhawk thinks she's too good to stand on regular old grass.
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post #13 of 32
3/24/08 at 11:01am
great photo. There is a dead buzzard on the side of the road near my house. Maybe I should take a picture of it.

Surprisingly, the other buzzards won't touch it.
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post #14 of 32
3/24/08 at 11:13am
Professional courtesy?
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post #15 of 32
3/24/08 at 11:20am
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Ask Spike what he had for dinner today.
Did the sparrowhawk come with fries?
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post #16 of 32
3/24/08 at 11:24am
I, for one, love the fact that "I woke up this morning and found a sparrowhawk in my garden" sounds like the opening line to an Emily Dickinson poem.
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post #17 of 32
3/24/08 at 11:31am
Not really. You can't sing it to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."* It sounds more like a line from a 15-year-old Wiccan's MySpace blog.



* - This works with almost any Emily Dickinson poem. Seriously. That or "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." There is an incredibly boring, pedantic reason for this, which I won't go into here.
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post #18 of 32
3/24/08 at 11:44am
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There is an incredibly boring, pedantic reason for this, which I won't go into here.
Thanks.

That was my attempt at twisting this into a Dumb and Dumber "quote"

I can't honestly say I've ever woken up with a Sparrowhawk in my garden, but I did have a Birdman in my dvd player once or twice
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post #19 of 32
3/24/08 at 11:57am
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* - This works with almost any Emily Dickinson poem. Seriously. That or "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." There is an incredibly boring, pedantic reason for this, which I won't go into here.
How boring and pedantic am I that I'm curious about the reason? The answer- very.

Anyway, nothing cool or fun about where I live. Although it has been shorts weather for the past three weeks even though it's winter and I live in Montana.
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post #20 of 32
3/24/08 at 12:00pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNY View Post
Did the sparrowhawk come with fries?
Don't you mean "chips"?

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How boring and pedantic am I that I'm curious about the reason? The answer- very.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_meter
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post #21 of 32
3/24/08 at 12:53pm
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I've been reliably informed that the Sparrowhawk was plucking feathers from the pigeons head so that it could eat the pigeons brain.
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post #22 of 32
3/24/08 at 1:05pm
I once saw what I believe to be a peregrine falcon dining on a mouse in the backyard of my parents' house in Jersey City. They're all over in the suburbs, but it's comparatively rare to see one in the city. There were also reports of a coyote being sighted in JC a few years ago, and that's unheard of.
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post #23 of 32
3/24/08 at 1:08pm
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Not really. You can't sing it to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."* It sounds more like a line from a 15-year-old Wiccan's MySpace blog.
Oh, MissZooey, why must you ruin everything with your relentless librarian's logic?
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post #24 of 32
3/24/08 at 1:40pm
A sparrowhawk Spike found today
As he looked in his garden.
At first our meter was astray,
MissZooey, beg your pardon.
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post #25 of 32
3/24/08 at 1:58pm
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Don't you mean "chips"?
My bad.
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post #26 of 32
3/24/08 at 1:58pm
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I live in the middle of the city. I'm more likely to see a chickenhawk.
Yeah David, those aren't birds. They may have bird like features and weigh as much as birds. But they aren't birds.
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post #27 of 32
3/24/08 at 2:00pm
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Oh, MissZooey, why must you ruin everything with your relentless librarian's logic?
Oh, you're mistaken. That was English major's logic. It's much more irritating, don't you think?
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post #28 of 32
3/24/08 at 2:03pm
Yeah, wouldn't library logic involve dewey decimals and stuff?
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post #29 of 32
3/24/08 at 2:07pm
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I've been reliably informed that the Sparrowhawk was plucking feathers from the pigeons head so that it could eat the pigeons brain.
That is goddamn perfect.
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post #30 of 32
3/24/08 at 5:43pm
Damn.
I live in a suburb next to what is technically countryside and all I get are magpies.
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post #31 of 32
3/24/08 at 6:11pm
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I, for one, love the fact that "I woke up this morning and found a sparrowhawk in my garden" sounds like the opening line to an Emily Dickinson poem.
I just keep trying to stick it in the opening of the We Five version of "You Were on My Mind", but it won't fit.
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post #32 of 32
3/24/08 at 6:25pm
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* - This works with almost any Emily Dickinson poem. Seriously. That or "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." There is an incredibly boring, pedantic reason for this, which I won't go into here.
I'll second the request to hear the reason.
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