So i meant to post this in a more timely fashion, but better late than never. This was one of the days we were packing up our things and moving out of our place in Menlo Park. I was busy going to our storage area in the carport moving boxes and trying to get rid of stuff, and one of our neighbors had spotted something and was looking intently at it. He was clearly moving slowly because of some sort of wildlife, and I was thinking, "Wildlife? Residential Menlo Park?" (I was thinking maybe it was a doe or a saber toothed tiger or whatever). Turns out, yes! Apparently this eagle/hawk/bird of prey had snagged hisself one of the tasty (and might i add quite prolific) squirrels from the area. One of Kirsten and my (or at least my) favorite pastimes in our first apartment (*tear*) was to gaze outside at the chestnut trees and other foliage as the crazed squirrels chased each other about, sometimes ravenously. I had postulated that there was an overpopulation due to human impact on the local ecosystem, and now that i see these photos again i can't help but think this sort of fare would have been rarer for Mr. or Mrs. Bird of Prey 50 or 100 years ago. At any rate, he tried to take off a few times, but was only able to go a short distance because of the sheer weight of his kill. ...relative, of course, to his body mass index and the amount of lift generated by his wings and not enough pitch or yaw or something (<--notice the science). Perhaps he was just full from already having dined on Mr. Squirrel. In the words of Ed, "nature, man."
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sweet... thanks for the quote too... exactly what i was going to say.
not even kidding.
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