CHAT I just had the most amazing thing happen!

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I went outside on sisters patio. Dayum, there's a robin on the concrete. It's stunned, not dead. I picked it up, set on the table. Got to pet it a little. Carried it to the sunshine. Let it warm up, it flew off. It's really cold here, but I don't know an explanation for it's behavior. How many people get to hold a wild bird? Wow!

I have had partridge hit the window and stun themselves.

cpl yrs back I heard the smack on the window.

I went out to see.

expecting a partridge.

it was a northern goshawk.

beautiful bird.

He was feeling presidential (dazed and confused)

so I pict him up and put him in a spot to recover.

I was wary of his beak.

I should have been concerned with his talons,

they were like fish hooks.

curved and VERY sharp.

he stabbed my fingers a cpl times, but not on purpose.

just a reaction of being pict up.

I watched him from the window and he eventually got his shyt together and flew away.

2 crows had been harassing him and he hit the window.

all my pics of him are on a dead computer.

 

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They play. Even chickens play. I loved watching my girls dust bathe. They would get this goofy look on their chicken faces , so they liked doing it.

wife and I would call this the 'dead chicken'

they would spread out a wing and lay on their side

and just sun bathe.

first cpl times we saw it, we thot it was a dead chicken.