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So I'm out on the dock in the back yard putting my stuff on the boat for a weekend camping trip, when I hear one of my roosters raising t-total hell in the edge of the swamp. When he is this pissed, it's usually some sort of animal has wondered into the yard. I have my digital camera in with my other stuff, so I grab it and head into the bushes. I find the rooster squared off with a small hawk. The hawk has a hen in it's talons, and he and the rooster are arguing over her. I manage to get a little of it on video mode of the digital camera:
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About this time, the memory card thing flashes, saying it's full. So I grab my phone, I know I need to get closer, cause it's camera isn't great. There is part of an old dock beside where this is going on. So I jump up on it, find the hawk with the phone's screen. I guess the rooster figures he has some backup know, and proceeds to roll the hawk, and spur him a few times. The hawk is instantly belly up:
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I don't know if the rooster has knocked him out, killed him, or the hawk is playing dead. I jump down to see if my hen is still alive. The hawk rolls over and trots out through the woods, with the rooster in hot pursuit, a few seconds later, I see the hawk come back overhead. The hen is dead. I decide to take her and throw her off the end where I keep my boat. Figuring the turtles will have chicken for lunch. I toss her out in the water. A minute later this guy pops up, about a 100 yards out.
The turtles are trying to pull the hen apart, creating quite a bit of splashing, which I guess attracts these guys:
So I'm wondering who is going to end up with the chicken, the mama coon or the big gator. The coons slam on brakes, do a 180 and and take off through the woods. Right where mama was going into the water, I hadn't even noticed this little fella watching it all go down.
The turtle is still yanking on the hen, and the bobbing and splashing was too much for the little fella to stand. He comes swimming at the hen. Notice in the video, as he swims up, he spooks the turtle off. This causes the hen to become still,and totally confuses the gator. Watch him, at one point he looks like he is going to leave it alone. I don't think he can figure out why this thing quit moving:
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When he finally gets a hold on it, the big gator stops his approach and watches:
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They stay like this for fifteen minutes or so, before the little fella slowly sinks out of sight with his lunch. With this much action right here behind the house, I wonder what I'll see this next couple days when I get out in the woods. :thumbup:
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About this time, the memory card thing flashes, saying it's full. So I grab my phone, I know I need to get closer, cause it's camera isn't great. There is part of an old dock beside where this is going on. So I jump up on it, find the hawk with the phone's screen. I guess the rooster figures he has some backup know, and proceeds to roll the hawk, and spur him a few times. The hawk is instantly belly up:
Click image for video
I don't know if the rooster has knocked him out, killed him, or the hawk is playing dead. I jump down to see if my hen is still alive. The hawk rolls over and trots out through the woods, with the rooster in hot pursuit, a few seconds later, I see the hawk come back overhead. The hen is dead. I decide to take her and throw her off the end where I keep my boat. Figuring the turtles will have chicken for lunch. I toss her out in the water. A minute later this guy pops up, about a 100 yards out.
The turtles are trying to pull the hen apart, creating quite a bit of splashing, which I guess attracts these guys:
So I'm wondering who is going to end up with the chicken, the mama coon or the big gator. The coons slam on brakes, do a 180 and and take off through the woods. Right where mama was going into the water, I hadn't even noticed this little fella watching it all go down.
The turtle is still yanking on the hen, and the bobbing and splashing was too much for the little fella to stand. He comes swimming at the hen. Notice in the video, as he swims up, he spooks the turtle off. This causes the hen to become still,and totally confuses the gator. Watch him, at one point he looks like he is going to leave it alone. I don't think he can figure out why this thing quit moving:
Click image for video
When he finally gets a hold on it, the big gator stops his approach and watches:
Click image for video
They stay like this for fifteen minutes or so, before the little fella slowly sinks out of sight with his lunch. With this much action right here behind the house, I wonder what I'll see this next couple days when I get out in the woods. :thumbup:
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lol... awesome stuff.