Hawks/Pigeons

[Eagle Claw]

Not a fishing post but nature which I found interesting. I live in a suburban neighborhood and have a neighbor who makes an effort to attract pigeons. Most people on the street find this quite annoying due to the fact pigeons are known to hang out in areas and crap on everything. I pulled into my driveway yesterday and saw a huge hawk having a pigeon dinner ten feet in front of my car. To see a hawk on the ground is indeed a very rare ocasion in our area, I have never seen that before, have seen them soaring but never on the ground. I wanted my wife to see this huge bird so started blowing my horn to get her attention, that hawk just kept eating away, the horn blowing did not even phase him. She finally opened the door to see what was going on and the hawk took off. All she saw was feathers and blood all over the snow and thought I had run some animal over. I hope this hawk has found what is the equivalent to the best steak house in the area and comes back for more of those tasty pigeons, wish I had my digital camera to take some video of this event.