Vegetarians, Hide Your Eyes
Posted by Moose on September 12th, 2007. Filed under: I Live to Eat.I am highly adept at feeding myself. I can google “fried chicken, San Francisco” with the best of them. I smear cheese on crackers like a pro. But Mother Nature kicks my wallet-wielding, cracker chomping ass. We were in Oakland a few weeks ago, sipping alcohol on the back porch when a family of turkeys waddled up onto the porch to sniff the potted plants. Turkeys don’t have credit cards for fried chicken, so I assume they were assembling a salad from the ficus and various species of hillside mushroom. Earlier that same week, we saw a family of raccoons in a parking lot. They were probably taking a break from foraging through a dumpster which, frankly, doesn’t impress me much.
But this? Taken just this morning on the deck? The deck outside the kitchen where I eat things only if they’re boxed or wrapped in plastic? Impresses me mightily.
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September 12th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Yessss! Kill more pigeons! Kill them ALL! Nasty, smelly, mite-infested pooping agents of the devil is what they are! Cockaroaches of the avian species!
September 12th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Wow, that is a great shot.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
I can’t believe you caught this! What, do you WEAR your camera?? Amazing!
September 12th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Don’t you have a cat? My cat brings birds, lizards, moles, frogs, etc… to me on a regular basis. Like sacrifices. She ate a WHOLE CHICKEN once – killed it in our chicken coop (she’s since been trained to leave them alone *ahem* with a BB gun).
But I gotta tell ya – pretty fine photo to catch!
September 12th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
What a great picture! Photography is definitely your second calling.
September 13th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Whoa! Kickass photo!
September 13th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Here’s where I have to admit that I didn’t take that picture. The boyfriend I’m not supposed to mention did. (Notice how I mention him when it suits my purpose, but ignore him entirely when it doesn’t?)
I came home and the camera was sitting on my laptop (the first place I go when I walk in the door) with a post-it note that said something like I AM AWESOME. BEHOLD MY AWESOMENESS. FOR I AM AWESOME. (No it didn’t. That was an editorial. The note really said ”check this out!”)
I don’t know how he managed to catch this. Obviously the hawk sat around and hung out long enough that he could race to my desk and unearth the camera. (Maybe with some unpaid bills and gum from 2004.)
But I downloaded it onto my computer and DOESN’T THAT COUNT FOR ANYTHING ANYMORE?
September 13th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Holy Shit!
September 13th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Did you wrestle the peregrine for the meal? Why didn’t you take a picture of THAT?
This picture, btw, is very, very good. Oh, I just read your comment. Good job Mr. Moose. And good job downloading, Moosey.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Beautiful, beautiful shot! And I like the editorial, so very true!
September 13th, 2007 at 9:53 am
After consulting the RSPB complete birds of britain and europe, I have to correct myself, I think. I think it’s a hobby falcon because of the streaks. But, what it’s doing in SF I don’t know. Ask it if it will trade places with me please. Or, maybe the peregrines in the bay area are different from the europeans and have streaked tummies. Someone help me out here. Don’t any ornithologists read your blog??
September 13th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I live in the country and all I’ve ever seen are what could amount to enough roadkill to circle the earth twenty five times.
I wonder how quickly I’d become a vegetarian if I had to chase my meat, sink my talons into it and eat it raw. Very quickly, I’m thinking.
September 13th, 2007 at 11:16 am
That photo is amazing. And who needs pigeons, anyway? Plenty more where that came from.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I just love the proud tilt of its head. Like it’s almost POSING for the photograph — “Yeah, I did it. Check this shit out. You like it, huh? Oh, I know you do.”
September 13th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Holy moly!
September 13th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Beautiful bird. Great picture.
Still a meat-eater,
Melissa
September 14th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
SHIT thats cool
September 14th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
That’s amazing!
I’m a veggie, but I don’t expect non-human creatures to seek out soy alternatives…
September 15th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
That’s awesome. I can’t believe he let you get that close!
September 16th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
So rad. I admittedly have a bit of bird phobia, so the talons, they are a bit scary, but, still, awesome.
September 16th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
This was a Scrolldown Horror.