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This is amazingly hilarious and disturbing at the same time.

Australia is beautiful: See a hawk literally throw a snake at an innocent family

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Hummingbirds use hawks as their bodyguards.

Raptors are amazing. *grin*

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Some raptor videos that I've had links to languishing in my inbox. Why post? Why not - they're raptors!

ScienceTake | Hawk Cam Captures the Hunt

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Red-Tailed Hawks

Slow Motion Eagle Owl Swooping In

Dubai World Record Eagle Flight (1:59 minutes)

Dubai World Record Eagle Flight (uncut version, the full 5 minutes flight)

Snow Covered Bald Eagle Shakes Snow off of Wings. Amazing!

Snow Covered Bald Eagle Nest and Eggs

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Via ojuang:
Raptor vs Mailman

I'm rooting for the birds... of course!

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We drove out to lovely Central Valley last night to visit the UC Davis California Raptor Center today. They don't allow you to visit the birds who are being rehabbed; however, the birds that can not be released after rehab are visitable.

Not only did we have a wonderful time watching the birds (albeit a bit sad because we're only able to visit them because they're non-releasable), we also adopted three birds! The Raptor Center is a non-profit that needs funds to help feed the birds, keep up the grounds, rehab the birds, etc. Instead of just asking for money, they put a "price" to a bird for their food upkeep and ask for people to sponsor them. So now we'll have a Merlin, a Red-Tail, and a Ferruginous Hawk all sending us postcards telling us how the donations have helped. This should be fun.

When BF & I were in London the first weekend of December 2010, it was a miserable weather experience. We did a lot of walking around, but we also spent more time than usual in our hotel room.

Want to know what we did to amuse ourselves?
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I don't usually like this type of humor, but BF showed me these hawks and they are tres funny.

I showed BF the following image from Fail Blog:

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BF decides to recreate this act with some Folkmanis hawk & sheep puppets venkablackfire gave me as a gift:





At least this time the stuffed animal recreations didn't involve any bondage.

I was sitting at my desk the other day, with a plastic hawk sitting on my right speaker. Underneath that right speaker was a small Pirate Booty bag filled with delicious Pirate Booty.

As I reach out to the bag to get some Booty, the hawk leaps off the speaker and does a perfect 10 Point landing on the bag. It's almost as if it was saying "Mine! Go and get something else, meatbag." Unfortunately for the hawk, it is small and made of Chinese plastic & I am big and made of meat. Hence, I got Booty and it got put back on the speaker.