OT Things to ponder

[geofflambert]

And, since I'm a gorn, a lobster bib.

[Zorch]

How did this thread get to 25 pages? THAT is a holy miracle, if you ask me [:D]

[geofflambert]

Twenty five pages? Have you tried to read Sir Isaac Newton's book on gravitation? I have it. Too much for me though.

[BillBrown]

Is your name Geof Flambert or Geoff Lambert? [8D]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Twenty five pages? Have you tried to read Sir Isaac Newton's book on gravitation? I have it. Too much for me though.

Much too heavy, even for a Gorn.
Now an apple, on the other Gorn grappling device...

[geofflambert]

Oh stop! I can't even count higher than 25.

[pws1225]

Is that how many pointy bits a gorn has?

[scout1]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Oh stop! I can't even count higher than 25.

If you're limited to counting your fingers and toes, thinking you can't count above 4 .....[:)]

[scout1]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Twenty five pages? Have you tried to read Sir Isaac Newton's book on gravitation? I have it. Too much for me though.

Much too heavy, even for a Gorn.
Now an apple, on the other Gorn grappling device...

Does it come with color pictures ?

[geofflambert]

There's a Coopers Hawk feeding on something in my back yard right now. I actually saw it fly in but didn't see what it's prey was. After it's done I'll go out and try and figure out what it was from the bones. I think it is either a squirrel or a rabbit. I got a few good stills of it and some video, I'll post some of that later. There's been a couple of hummingbirds watching it with some fascination, perched on some old phone wires.

[geofflambert]

There's a couple of squirrels watching her now, they're totally exposed, first on top of a garage and now sitting on a fence. They should find a better place to hide, but they may realize it's safe since she's feeding. Now there's a Downy Woodpecker not far away at one of my feeders chirping her head off. She's not worried.

[geofflambert]

She's done now and just flew into my maple tree. There's a couple of squirrels in that tree not further than a couple of feet from her. What are they thinking?

[geofflambert]

Here's the best still I have of her. The video is quite good and I'll post that once I crop it down and make an animated GIF of it.

[geofflambert]

Here's the pic I got of the remains. It was starting to rain so I had to work fast. The flies were already all over it.
Definitely rabbit. Red arrow pointing to a paw.

[geofflambert]

I think I said this on this forum, perhaps this thread, Cooper's Hawks don't kill in the same fashion other raptors do. The others snip the spinal cord at the neck with their beaks. Cooper's just crush the life out of their prey with their talons.

[geofflambert]

I just got some more video. She came back. She was perched on a fence and a squirrel came toward her and got within 18 inches or so. That squirrel must've been eating some of the lead flashings on my roof. Lead tastes like sugar. She eyed him but wasn't hungry any more. Wow.

[geofflambert]

OMG, she came back again. Is she now my pet hawk? Got some more video of her on a different fence. Still squirrels around behaving as if she's no threat. Turned off the video just before she tried to land on a flat open bird feeder not 20 feet from my face. So beautiful she is.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Here's the pic I got of the remains. It was starting to rain so I had to work fast. The flies were already all over it.
Definitely rabbit. Red arrow pointing to a paw.

You know, the expression "the lion's share" originally meant all, not most. I liked it better when it meant "all". This bird took most, anyway.

[Lecivius]

Have several Coopers in our neighborhood. I love to watch them. Crows were after one of the young a few months back. Out came the 20G. BOOM. No more crow, but the cops were circling the neighborhood for days [:-]

I have a few nosy neighbors (most are cool old farts like me), but Old Injun Trick [;)] Unless you're listening & ready, if you hear just one shot you never know what direction it comes from [:D]

[geofflambert]

So I grant that you might be an old fart (like me), but how do we know if you're cool or not?

Anyways, I went and had breakfast, came back, and the rabbit carcass, what was left of it, was gone. Not pieces of it spread around, I mean gone! We have Opossums around here (even the Irish kind, O'possums) but I never see them in daylight. I do see raccoons in the daylight but mostly at night. Maybe one took it. Or maybe, the hawk thought she was a lion and came back and took it off to put in her freezer for later?