Taking the Stuffed Bird as Prey to an extreme
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A few days ago, this appeared on my back deck. I’d never seen it before, and as my deck is enclosed by a privacy fence, I had no idea how it had gotten there. Tonight, the neighbors we were pet-sitting for returned home. I took their key up, and as I was talking to the wife, their dog romped up with an identical mallard in her mouth. The neighbor told me that she’d seen a hawk in their back yard trying to carry off the stuffed duck, and that they’d had to buy a replacement duck after it disappeared.
This is sort of shaking my whole perception of hawks as deadly hunters.
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Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. Thanks for sharing!
I can’t figure out why the hawk isn’t going after the eighty-trillion squirrels in my yard instead of a stuffed dog toy.
LOL Maybe the hawk needs glasses?
There are plenty of squirrels in my hard, too.
That is in my yard ….
My dog has this duck, too. I’ll have to make sure he keeps it away from those killer hawks!
That is just too funny!
I had a hawk land in my yard over the weekend while I was raking. He headed to the holly bushes where a small cadre of brown birds hangs out. the next day there was a small pile of feathers in front of the ivy bushes. I too, wonder where the squirrels were that day – the only thing that seems to do them in is falling out of the trees. ps – my dog had a duck like yours – loved to carry it around in his mouth. I think it has no innards anymore.
Poor hawk. He clocked the duck and had already phone home to tell Mrs. Hawk to get going on the l’orange. Boy was he in the doghouse that night.