What Planet Do You People Live On?
15 November 2007Biking home today, I almost crashed into a tree when a small Accipiter clutching a ginormous Fox Squirrel flew just overhead and into a cork oak. I glanced around to see who else might have seen to share my amazement. Among the fifty or so cyclists and pedestrians who should have had as clear a view as I did, not a single person had noticed. Or if they had, they simply didn’t care, which is worse.
Okay, so maybe it wasn’t an eagle taking out a deer but still. Massive, awesome carnage taking place just overhead and you people don’t even notice?
During a 5th grade dodge ball match I glanced up and noticed a strange bird circling with the omnipresent Turkey Condors. White head, white tail, dark body. I had never seen a Bald Eagle before. I leaped up and down and shouted “Everyone, look! A Bald Eagle.” Then I got tagged in the face.
Sports suck. Animals rule. Wake the hell up folks.
15 November 2007 at 6:27 pm
I usually take binoculars to staff meetings whenever they’re on the top floor, so (in the tea break) I can watch the various raptors that hunt over campus. We get black-shouldered kites, nankeen kestrels and the occasional wedge-tailed eagle. My colleagues may well think I’m eccentric (to put it mildly) but it’s fascinating. Their loss!