Hawk Hungry For Puppet Thrasher
From WSBTV:
A red-tailed hawk, apparently confused by a puppet shaped like a bird, swooped into a Midtown Atlanta parking lot Friday sending two workers ducking for cover.Jeff Domke and Alan Louis, employees at the Center for Puppetry Arts, were in the facility's parking lot at 1404 Spring Street taking pictures of a puppet designed to look like a brown thrasher, the state bird of Georgia.The brown thrasher puppet must be pretty realistic because the hawk, a respected hunter, tried to turn the puppet into breakfast.The hawk, which can reach speeds up to 120 mph in a dive, made contact with Domke on the hand and head before realizing its target wasn't a real bird."I suppose the hawk paid us a compliment on Jeff’s design," said Louis.No human, hawk or puppet was injured.
A red-tailed hawk, apparently confused by a puppet shaped like a bird, swooped into a Midtown Atlanta parking lot Friday sending two workers ducking for cover.Jeff Domke and Alan Louis, employees at the Center for Puppetry Arts, were in the facility's parking lot at 1404 Spring Street taking pictures of a puppet designed to look like a brown thrasher, the state bird of Georgia.The brown thrasher puppet must be pretty realistic because the hawk, a respected hunter, tried to turn the puppet into breakfast.The hawk, which can reach speeds up to 120 mph in a dive, made contact with Domke on the hand and head before realizing its target wasn't a real bird."I suppose the hawk paid us a compliment on Jeff’s design," said Louis.No human, hawk or puppet was injured.
posted by birdchick at 4:19 AM
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Earlier this year I went to my mailbox which is made of brick and has a newspaper tube built-in on top of the box. When I reached in to get the newspaper I happened to push it back while trying to grab it and it seemed to run into something soft. Thinking there was something else in the tube I reached in after removing the paper and my hand touched something soft and warm. I pulled my hand out quickly and stood back to look into the tube and saw a small owl looking at me. It made no attempt to fly away so I decided to leave it be and not frighten it more than it already was. I went into the house and decided to get my camera and take a picture, but when I returned to the mailbox the owl was gone. The next day there was a picture in the paper of an owl inside a paper tube. Maybe they should sell paper tubes for owl nests.
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