Yesterday morning I went out to my car and I noticed there was a feather explosion all over the front lawn like someone had a pillow fight with a feather pillow that broke.

A few feet away from that I find a large dead pigeon minus his head.

I know there are several outdoor feral type cats in the neighborhood, I watch a big black one creeping around in my yard from up in my attic office room. We also have hawks that circle high up on certain days.

What would have killed a pigeon like that? Was it a cat or a hawk? And why would they only eat the head?

Cat. Hawks eat everything.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:

Hawks eat everything.

Unless the hawk is named "Mikey."

Maybe it was an Ichabod crane?

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Originally posted by PASig:
Was it a cat or a hawk?

Neither. Transonic pigeon. Flew too fast. Head exploded.

Same thing happens if you drive a volkswagen bug over 65. It's not pretty.

Pigeon Mafia.

Match it up with the occasional bird heads I find in my yard.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:

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Originally posted by PASig:
Was it a cat or a hawk?

Neither. Transonic pigeon. Flew too fast. Head exploded.

Same thing happens if you drive a volkswagen bug over 65. It's not pretty.

OMG! LOL Thanks! I really needed a hearty belly laugh today and THIS did it! hahahahahaha

Is Ozzy in town?

Cats--the most prolific killers on the planet. They kill for sport, just like us.

COVID?

You found a rare immortal pigeon who lost a fight with another of his kind.

There can be only one...

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
Same thing happens if you drive a volkswagen bug over 65. It's not pretty.

Disagreee. Back in college I had a ‘69 bug for a while. 65 was no problem. 70 was no problem. 75 for too long melted a piston one day. The good news was it was only $46 for a new cylinder assembly and I had it back on the road in a day. The joys of working in a garage that had a tow truck and being good friends with the owner...

Just because you bent the laws of physics and space and time on a given day doesn't mean anyone else can, or should.

You're goddamn lucky you didn't hit 80, or you'd have been transported to an alternate dimension, in the future. I've seen it documented on film.

That alternate dimension, incidentally, is full of pigeon heads.

Do you have overhead lines near your house? Pigeons can fly up to 60mph. If one were to hit those high tension lines, it could sever the head clean off.

Any carnivals in town?
Geeks used to bite the heads off chickens.
Just sayn...

Weird! All I ever find is the head with the feathers .

my cat eats most of the birds he kills/brings home.

In addition to cats, do you have any owls in your neigborhood?

A few years ago we had some barred owls in the area (they were crazy loud when they got frisky). It wasn't uncommon for me to find headless birds in the back yard while they were around. They hunt from dusk to dawn, so I never actually saw the event, but when they left the area I stopped finding headless birds in the yard.

Could be racoons, too. They rip the heads off my chickens all the time.