Dinner for One
I stumbled across this scene when I got home today around lunch time. This Sharp-shinned Hawk had just captured a Blue Jay and was in the process of killing it. There were several other Blue Jays in the trees squawking at the scene. I ran in and got my camera. I wasn’t able to get much closer than this before the Hawk carried the Blue Jay away. The Blue Jay was still making noises as the Hawk flew away to a safer place to eat. I thought about a possible ‘intervention’ but quickly realized that it would not be the right thing to do… The Hawk would have done exactly what he did, carrying his capture off to a safe place. I also consider this to be natural selection…
Oh well… It’s just a scene that I don’t get to see very often. I see various types of hawks frequently but rarely making a kill…
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Great capture. Looks like both of you were having lunch at the same time. :-) I know, bad, joke, Paul, bad joke! I know what you mean about wanting to intervene and ’save’ the Blue Jay. I’ve been witness to a couple of scenes where I wanted to interfere, but figured that it just wasn’t my place. Nature is fair, but it is not necessarily kind.