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#1 JWL

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 09:33 PM

My first thought was is this a good omen or a bad omen?
So there I was, driving my less than 2 week old Hawk Shell on my Tundra on the freeway in San Antonio to a Dr. appointment. When suddenly BAM! My first thought was my fairing on the roof blew off..my solar panel just blew off??!! I look in the rearview mirror and see wings! I have a big bird stuck between the rear cab of the truck and the camper! I was sure it was dead so no use stopping on the side of the freeway. Less than a mile from my destination it started moving around. It’s a HAWK!  Getting out there was some “splatter” but then I saw a rather beat up pigeon laying back there. His prey! He crawled his way to the end jumped out and went to some grass, I got his “lunch” with a napkin and tossed it to him but I guess he lost his appetite. When I came out of my appointment he was still there, I talked to him a bit and said he was about to ruin my day, pulled out my phone to call the Division of Wildlife when a lady pulls up saying she has been eating her lunch and watching and worrying about the poor bird. And then he flew away. 
i do have a dent in my new Hawk but what a heck of a story on how it got there! 
 

OK how do you rotate images again!? Sorry
 

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Edited by JWL, 29 September 2020 - 09:36 PM.

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#2 Vic Harder

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 11:07 PM

That's a great story!


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#3 OffTheGridMaps

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 11:34 PM

That is a great story, glad the bird flew away.  Good thing FWC didn't name their camper the Albatross... you never would have driven away from that!


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#4 Wandering Sagebrush

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Posted 30 September 2020 - 01:11 AM

Thank goodness you didn’t have a Cougar.  
 

Great story!  Thanks for sharing!


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#5 Kolockum

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Posted 30 September 2020 - 01:17 AM

I would call that a good omen. 


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#6 ski3pin

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Posted 30 September 2020 - 02:21 AM

That's a great story!

 

 

I would call that a good omen. 

Second (or third)  all of the above. :)

 

Glad he flew off and sure hope without any serious disabilities. Anything that will take down a pigeon is my kind of bird. :)


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#7 Montana John

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Posted 04 October 2020 - 06:21 PM

Makes a much better story than cracking a bottle of Champaign on your new Hawk...


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