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Headless Pigeon On My Front Lawn: Cat or Hawk?

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January 31, 2021, 01:18 PM
PASig
Headless Pigeon On My Front Lawn: Cat or Hawk?
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?


January 31, 2021, 01:20 PM
Mars_Attacks
Cat. Hawks eat everything.


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January 31, 2021, 01:47 PM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:

Hawks eat everything.
Unless the hawk is named "Mikey."



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January 31, 2021, 02:04 PM
sigmonkey
Maybe it was an Ichabod crane?




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January 31, 2021, 02:13 PM
sns3guppy
quote:
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.
January 31, 2021, 02:16 PM
PHPaul
Pigeon Mafia.




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January 31, 2021, 02:17 PM
cne32507
Match it up with the occasional bird heads I find in my yard.
January 31, 2021, 02:23 PM
bald1
quote:
Originally posted by sns3guppy:
quote:
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



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January 31, 2021, 04:34 PM
cas
Is Ozzy in town?


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January 31, 2021, 05:05 PM
Keystoner
Cats--the most prolific killers on the planet. They kill for sport, just like us.



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January 31, 2021, 05:11 PM
Mutiny
COVID?
January 31, 2021, 05:12 PM
Windhover
You found a rare immortal pigeon who lost a fight with another of his kind.

There can be only one...
January 31, 2021, 06:05 PM
slosig
quote:
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...
January 31, 2021, 07:02 PM
sns3guppy
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.
January 31, 2021, 08:05 PM
Orguss
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.



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February 01, 2021, 06:27 AM
msfzoe
Any carnivals in town?
Geeks used to bite the heads off chickens.
Just sayn...
February 01, 2021, 07:32 AM
Fla. Jim
Weird! All I ever find is the head with the feathers .
February 01, 2021, 07:40 AM
airbubba
my cat eats most of the birds he kills/brings home.
February 01, 2021, 08:47 AM
ShouldBFishin
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.
February 01, 2021, 09:47 AM
1KPerDay
Could be racoons, too. They rip the heads off my chickens all the time.


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