Quick note about the coolest bit of predator on prey action that I’ve seen in a while.
While walking down Market Street this morning, at about 8:30 AM, I spied a red tail hawk on a cast iron ledge of the Litt Brothers building (an old block-long department store) near the corner of 8th and Market.
It had in its talons a pigeon which it had just grabbed and killed. As it flew off with its prize, the hawk lost its grasp, sending the pigeon three stories down into the street. It hit with an audible thud…right near a heavyset lady waiting for the bus.
She of course screeched. And, from that moment, nothing short of getting fired could ruin my workday.
It was cooler than the time I saw a red tail hawk nab a rat on Drexel’s campus.