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Hawk catches Rozzie rat for dinner

By adamg on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 6:34pm
Hawk and rat in Roslindale back yard

Ed Grzyb went out into his Roslindale backyard this evening to see this scene:

Apparently this hawk wanted to grill the rat he caught tonight.

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By dpalomares on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 6:39pm.

The Brookline Turkey, the Rozzie Rat and the SoBo Deer walk into a Bar...

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By jmeltzer on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 8:54pm.

"Does the Boston Yeti have to work tonight? "

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By anon on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 9:01pm.

and Keytar Bear is playing

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By adamg on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 7:19pm.

Grzyb zoomed in after he got the hawk to move to a nearby tree by spritzing it with some water from a hose.

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By anon on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 7:37pm.

You can practically see the individual barbs of the feathers. Raptors are having a spectacular comeback.

There are a pair of nesting bald eagles in the crown of a white pine in Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham. That adjoining lake basin area made by the Moody Street dam is an attractive habitat. I imagine they'll be around for a while. It's on the edge of Brandeis.

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By anon on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 7:24pm.

Monsieur Hawk.

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By Malcolm Tucker on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 8:03pm.

Better fire up the grill. That hawk looks serious!

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By Daan on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 8:34pm.

A friend said that some hawks wind up dying because they eat critters, such as le rat, which had already ingested poison. Anyone know if that is true?

Is there a hawk messenger service? Hawks are welcome in my neighborhood. There is a brace of coneys that I would gladly point the hawks to.

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By brianjdamico on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 8:45pm.

Yeah, its true. Rodenticide that the rats eat makes them an easy target for birds of prey, who then ingest the poison and can kill them, primarily through preventing blood clotting in the birds. I know the hospital at the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth has treated several red tailed hawks this year for this issue, most successfully.

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By Elmer on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 8:41pm.

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By Whurlz on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 11:14am.

Adora--ewwwwww!

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By BB from Dot on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 8:42pm.

Not that I want a zoomed in view, but that nose looks pretty pointy for a rat.

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By anon on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 9:40pm.

The tail is also a bit large for a rat.

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By Dave on Sun, 07/05/2015 - 11:09pm.

In Boston, an opossum is known as a "Rozzie Rat".

(I just made that up)

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By Steeve on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 9:46am.

I take it you've never seen a rat. That's a rat. Or a rigoddamndisculously huge hawk.

And that's not a pointy opossum face, it's a rat that's on its side so you're seeing the bottom part of its jaw/mouth.

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By egrzyb on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 10:55am.

My neighbor has issues with them (as have I in the past before I rat proofed my foundation). This one was definitely an adult rat. I have several other pictures of it which I'll spare you from as they are rather disgusting

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By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 11:15am.

If I had mad photoshop skills, I'd work a gun into that.

Her life with the Grill Kill Cult?

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