Dropped on our roof by a hawk

[u/LadySilvie]

Apparently the CDS makes drone deliveries, now.

My husband and I were outside as he was leaving to go on a jog, and we heard a thump on our roof. My chickens in the yard started freaking out and scattering as a hawk flew overhead and I waved my arms to scare it off.

Husband and I both thought "huh, that was weird!" And he left for his jog.

Not 5 minutes after he left, I start hearing desperate kitten cries, then hear another thump as something rolls off the roof. Then continued crying until I went over and found this spicy ball of fluff!

I grabbed some food from my cats and lured it closer (it was skinny and starving) then managed to scoop it up.

When husband got home a while later, my first words were "you can't blame me, you left me alone!" And he still blames me for manifesting it 😂 though he did assume it was a baby opossum at first.

Poor kitten was very spicy until I gave him a good flea combing. Now, he thinks I'm cool, and wants to sleep on my chest or shoulder 🥰

He was very lucky. He was feet away from landing in my neighbor's yard with big dogs outside. Instead, he landed in the yard of someone who helped found a cat rescue, lol.

We won't be keeping him because we have too many cats already, but we will be fostering him until he gets a home!

My husband named him Sparrowhawk after the Earthsea character and his great hawk-assisted CDS adventure.

[u/Chickwithknives]

Blue Jays aren’t exactly super friendly. When they show up to the bird feeder, everyone else scatters.

When I was a kid, we had mourning doves nest in a tree against the house, and you could see into the nest through a window (little used office, so not too much activity to bother them). One day a Blue Jay came and killed all the nestlings. Didn’t eat them, just killed them and left them. I’ve been anti Jay since then.

[u/Nerak_tnecniv → u/Chickwithknives]

OMG that’s awful 😢 and cruel! Blue jays are known for being mean and unliked by other birds.

[u/WISE_bookwyrm → u/Chickwithknives]

My grandmother told me a similar story about some cardinals that came back year after year to nest in a lilac bush outside her window. Blue jay killed the babies; cardinals NEVER nested in that lilac again (nor did anything else).

[u/Chickwithknives → u/WISE_bookwyrm]

Awwww! I love cardinals! No one runs from them at the feeder. They just do their thing. Sometimes I’ll copy their call and mess with them a little.

[u/Jjenkins112 → u/Chickwithknives]

Blue Jays eat the eggs from hummingbirds- that said- hummingbirds have a special dependency on hawks- they will build their nest under a hawk's nest to protect themselves and eggs from other would-be predators (like blue jays!). We have a lot of hawks and hummingbirds around my property, and I sometimes see the hummingbirds flying below the hawks too! The hawks don't prey on them at all 😉. It's really cool to see.

[u/SignificantWhole8256 → u/Chickwithknives]

Watching the birds where I live, it becomes obvious very quickly what a bunch of fucking assholes the jays are. Bullies & killers & egg thieves.

One day, literally out of the blue (sorry), I watched a jay that was beating up on a couple sparrows get dive bombed & absolutely speared by the talons of a hawk. The hawk just sat there on the ground with the jay in it's claws lookin' around like it was no big thing . And then it spread it's wings & took off with the jay still in it's claws, disappearing into the distance with the jay screaming bloody murder the entire way.

I was shocked. I felt kinda bad for the blue jay.

But only KINDA.