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Cruel fate

This huge bird literally fell out of the sky Wednesday evening, just before the sun set, and for a split second I fretted as I drove past, thinking that I'd happened to catch the exact moment when the poor creature must have dropped dead while soaring through the air.

It was a hawk, as it turned out, and it disappeared behind a roadside culvert for one millisecond before suddenly reappearing, wings grandly outstretched as it propelled skyward, clutching a fat black rat in its yellow talons. Driving by, I heard the rat quite clearly as it squealed. The sound was that of untold eons worth of this natural cycle of things.

Only the strong survive. Timing is everything. Might makes right.

posted by rekkidbraka @ 9:14 PM