Awesome site. Scary for the hawk.
This morning my dog went mental in the backyard and I thought they were just barking at ghosts or at the neighbor’s dog. It wouldn’t shut up, so I went outside and what do I find inside the screened patio?
A Red Tailed Hawk (at least, that’s what I think it was, from pictures online) laying on its back, claws in the air. The dogs were barking at it and it was panting like it had been trying to get out for a while.
As I approached it the first few times, it tried to fly away and just ended up doing headers into the screen, then falling back down to earth. I thought it was going to kill itself. After a few tries, I get the pool net on top of it and keep the dogs away.
So I try to bring the bird to the door saying the whole time “I won’t hurt you. I won’t hurt you. Don’t bite me. Don’t bite me.” as if it understood. So it flies closer to the house, where the sliding glass door is still opened. I’m praying that it doesn’t go inside - then we’ll never get it out again.
It lands on a patio chair and I put the net over it again. It tries to fly away and just tips over into the net, upside down. This made it a lot easier to carry outside the covered area. So I take it out, turn the net over and let it sit in the grass. Keeping the dogs away at the same time.
Eventually, the thing flies away and into the trees. I’m glad it didn’t seem injured and happy that it got away. A nice eventful Sunday morning.
Awesome looking animal. I’ve never seen one that close and now I hope I don’t again.
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