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Wow. Killing Fields City.

Sitting at my desk writing a lecture about Blood Meridian, I just watched, from my front windows, an enormous hawk stand on my post and rail fence and look for a few minutes at the half-eaten body of a rabbit that I earlier this morning watched a crow pick at.

That was certainly a long sentence.

Let’s rewrite it McCarthy-style (the hawk has since descended, picked up the body in its claws, and taken it halfway up an adjacent tree).

She wrote the lecture and looked out of the window and a hawk was there and it watched the body of the crow-picked rabbit and looked around itself and then it floated down and lifted the dead rabbit in its talons and took it up to a tree and began to eat.

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(Looked like this. Without the snow. Plus maybe that’s a squirrel.)

Margaret Soltan, March 23, 2015 9:14AM
Posted in: snapshots from home

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2 Responses to “Wow. Killing Fields City.”

  1. theprofessor Says:

    In our neighborhood, either most of the hawks are on vacation or the monster horned owls have driven them off. No rodent or other varmint is safe when those owls are around.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    tp: The Ultimate Predators can also be heard hooting like mad in our woods.

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