Lunch time show

[urbpan]

A hawk killed a squirrel outside our office window this weekend. My coworker watched a titmouse pick bits of frozen meat off the carcass. Today the titmouse was chased off by a bluejay, who gorged on bits of icy rodent. Just now I watched another squirrel observe the jay for a few minutes before chasing the bird away from his friend's cold body. Then he tucked in and started eating.

Just as I finished writing that, Sarah Ferenstein, the red-tailed hawk featured in several recent photos, landed at the site and flew away with the cannibalized corpse. Then the titmice returned to pick at the bloody snow.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

it's a squirrel eat squirrel world out there.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You said it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I guess squirrel is so tasty that even squirrels want some?

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

zombie sqirrels

arg nuts nuts er brains

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[deathling.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that cute little titmice could be so cannibalistic.
It's a crazy world out there

Gay necrophiliac duck:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/mar/08/highereducation.research

[momomom.livejournal.com]

Today I watched a squirrel eat a piece of ice. Not quite zombie squirrel but it surprised me.

[squid-ink.livejournal.com]

stop it you're making me hungry

[lyosha.livejournal.com]

I love nature.

To the above poster: Not sure how it's 'cannibalistic' for a bird to eat a squirrel-- maybe just carnivorous?

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

The second squirrel was also eating the dead squirrel.

[lyosha.livejournal.com]

I am aware, but the quote I commented on was "I had no idea that cute little titmice could be so cannibalistic."

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

We'll have to settle this by providing a birdfeeder full of titmouse meat and see who comes to eat from it.

[callipygian80.livejournal.com]

That's really cool. I miss having a window at work; I used to get distracted by all kinds of nature in the concrete jungle.