Geez, I hope this isn't an omen.

[chaska]

I decided I wanted to have lunch in the park today.

So I find a table, sit down, and just as I'm about to chow down I look over and see a hawk on the ground about fifty feet away. He was standing on something, but I couldn't tell what it was. So I got up and started walking slowly that way. I got to within about 15 feet without spooking the critter.

Then I could see what he was standing on alright. And not just standing on, he was eating another bird. I can't say for sure it was a dove (though that is indeed what it looked to be) but it was pure white (I swear to God). I near soiled myself when I saw that the bird was still alive. Its head was up and moving around and it's eyes blinking.

I didn't have time to think about what, if anything, I should do next for at that moment the hawk took off for the trees with the other bird still in his talons.

Lunch wasn't quite as appetizing after that.

Does this mean anything? Should we be worried about this? The symbolism, you must admit, is quite striking.

[helderheid]

1. well it is what is happening

but remember - the dove was still alive, and we are too.

[chaska]

6. I saw him later ... uh, he uh, gulp, wasn't looking too good.

If you know what I mean.

[helderheid]

7. LMAO

I was trying to be poetic! ;P

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. So far anyway.

color me cautious!






www.sharedvoice.org/unamerican/

[XOKCowboy]

2. It's nature...

Raptors eat other birds. Don't read anything into it. Be happy that the raptor was alive and feeding.

[havocmom]

17. And doves are not as peaceful as they are preceived to be

not an omen. Just life of birds.

[SnoopDog]

3. Mother Nature just happens....day in, day out... no omen...

Unless you make it an omen.

[bunkerbuster1]

4. What's alarming? That's nature.

Predatory birds eat weaker birds.

Get stronger or get eaten. That's the take-away, here.

[Goldmund]

5. Symbolic Hawk

would be a good band name...

[prolesunited]

8. Yes, the end is near

Run for the hills.

[linazelle]

16. LOL . . . it DOES get hilarious, all the hype, doesn't it? n/t

[Auntie Bush]

9. No, don't worry...not an Omen. just nature taking place.

I hope so anyway! Sorry it ruined your lunch.

I'm surprised by this story...I always thought hawks killed their pray instantly. I guess mother nature isn't so perfect.

[chaska]

14. Yeah, I'm aware nature can be "cruel", but...

I didn't expect to see that bird still moving around. If the predator were a cat now....

[Blue-Jay]

11. The gulags can't be far behind.

OMG!

[orleans]

12. "let the eagle soarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

(to be sung after you've dipped yourself in jesus oils)

[okieinpain]

13. those hawk are truly amazing. I saw basically the same thing a

couple years ago, I just watched in awe.

[Cleita]

15. Hawks prey on other birds a lot. Doves and pigeons really

don't stand a chance around them. One of natures nasty secrets is that a lot of prey gets eaten before it's dead. I like to think that fear gives them a big shot of adrenaline so that it doesn't hurt them that much.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. You should have cried out "KUCINICH - NOOOOO!!!!!!!"

[chaska]

19. Poor f*cker never saw it comin'.

[Blue Belle]

20. I know it's a part of nature and all...

but I'd still get creeped out by it. Especially if it were a hawk eating a dove... the symbolism would be too much for me. I don't see us in the role of the dove though... more like that of an angry peace lover weilding and banging on a trash can lid to encourage the hawk to get the fuck out of here. :)

[Beware the Beast Man]

21. It's called the Food Chain. Nothing symbolic at all.

Either that, or it's a BFEE plot to produce genetically-altered "super-hawks" that symbolically prey on doves as a means of psy-ops against the masses. Nah, it's just the food chain...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. I think its birds fitted ith devices to intimidate liberals. All the signs

point to the Armenian Mafia