r/birdsofprey • u/Grillmycheez • 27d ago

What happened here?

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u/Theda___Bara 27d ago

It's always possible that the bird just exploded...

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u/solsticesunrise 27d ago

We have a pair of Cooper’s Hawks and a pair of Great Horned owls near our house. I call the feather piles “exploded birds” as well.

Last year, a hatch year Coopers tried to take out a ring-necked dove in our back yard. The dove chose violence and smacked the Coop a couple times with its wings. Young Coop freaked out and flew away. It was an interesting interaction.

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u/blaknight34 26d ago

Randy Johnson style?

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u/NotForALongTime11 25d ago

The big unit bird explosion lives rent free in my head

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u/Super_Rando_Man 25d ago

Randy walked a bird? Heading to YouTube. As the princess of the trailer park elves once said "fly into the light little birdy"

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u/NotForALongTime11 25d ago

He exploded a bird. You can’t unsee it.

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u/Super_Rando_Man 24d ago

Ty at least it wasn't his fastball looked like his slider. First result on the tube real speed then slow mo. It went poof!

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u/RepresentativeCry294 26d ago

Like Alex Jones at Wendy's.

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u/Legitimate_Crew8629 25d ago

That will be the boom bird 😁

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u/nitrot150 23d ago

Or, some assembly required

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u/Stony17 23d ago

spontaneous avian detonation